Bug#979104: installation-reports: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 has no firmware in nonfree iso
Hi,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 14:30 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > liangyue <nvcsadjkojf@outlook.com> wrote:
> > > My wifi can not connect. The installer told me that I missing
> > > firmware files are
> > > regulatory.db, and I solved it by add package named wireless-regdb.
> > > I think the package
> > > wireless-regdb should be add to nonfree iso.
> > > By the way, my amd gpu rx590 also need firmware, because I can't
> > > enter desktop
> > > environment until I install the package firmware-amd-graphics. I
> > > think the two firmware
> > > should included in nonfree iso for everyone like my haardware.
> >
> > Two different issues here:
> >
> > 1. regulatory.db from wireless-regdb package is not included in non-free
> > firmware-including d-i images.
> [...]
>
> regulatory.db is free, and is packaged in wireless-regdb-udeb which
> should be included in most installer builds since 20201202. So I don't
> know why it's not being found.
Hmm, you stated that wireless-regdb-udeb should be included in most installer
builds now.
That goes down to commit
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/debian-installer/-/commit/2b615f42bd7745ac9add0a36b1630812f95840fb
which adds wireless-regdb-udeb to netboot images.
Yes, that works fine, using a netboot image, I am NOT asked to provide
firmware for regulatory.db file, because it's already included in the d-i
image.
However, that's only true for netboot images!
My wireless card (on an IBM Thinkpad T60) is also usable with DVD/CD netinst images
(so related kernel modules seem to be included in those images; I have explicitly
tested that with said images on that T60), so probably wireless-regdb-udeb should just
be added to all Linux d-i images?
Holger
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