Bug#973733: RTW88_8821ce module fails to find firmware during install and must be reloaded
package: src:linux
Hi,
I downloaded one of the firmware netinstall builds of Debian from today (11/03/2020) to try installing on my netbook with the 8821ce wifi card since Debian now has the 5.9 kernel. During the text install with speech, I received an error that the network card could not be found. I opened a console and looking at dmesg showed the driver not finding the firmware with a -2 error, however, I noticed that the requested files had been unpacked to /lib/firmware. I unloaded rtw88_8821ce and reloaded it using modprobe and the firmware was found, after which the network interface was successfully brought up. I was able to continue through the rest of the install without issue. I am not sure what logs would help but would be happy to provide anything requested to diagnose this issue.
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