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Re: WiFi install (Intel 8265) (Dell Precision 5520)



On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 14:27 +0200, Stanislaw Findeisen wrote:
> On 2017-06-19 03:48, Charles Chambers wrote:
> > Has anyone else tried to install 9.0 over WiFi yet?
> 
> I have tried to install 9.0 on a new Dell Precision 5520, with an
> Intel
> WiFi Link 8265 card, and failed.
> 
> The missing firmware files (as reported by the installer) seem to be:
> 
> iwlwifi-8265-26.ucode
> iwlwifi-8265-25.ucode
> iwlwifi-8265-24.ucode
> iwlwifi-8265-23.ucode
> iwlwifi-8265-22.ucode
> iwlwifi-8265-21.ucode
> iwlwifi-8265-20.ucode
> 
> Where does this list come from?!
[...]

You only need one of them.  The driver prefers the newest but can use
older versions.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Klipstein's 4th Law of Prototyping and Production:
                                    A fail-safe circuit will destroy
others.

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