Bug#967896: Failed to load firmware chunk for iwlwifi Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 9560 on debian-installer

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

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Pier Paolo Franco <pierpaolo.franco@futuretense.it> wrote:
> Debian installer warns about missing firmware for iwlwifi Intel wireless
> AC9560, so I manually copied over (on subsequent attempt)
> - debian packages (firmware-misc-nonfree, firmware-nonfree,
> firmware-iwlwifi),
> - tried to get ucodes (34, 38, 41) from USB drive (grabbed from
> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/buster/current/),
> 
> - manually copied ucodes avaible for Debian buster in /lib/firmware and
> outside in /lib/ (iwlwifi-9000-pu-jf-b0-34, 38, 41 and 43 .ucode)
> - iwlwifi-9000-pu-jf-b0-34 from
> https://www.intel.it/content/www/it/it/support/articles/000005511/network-and-i-o/wireless-networking.html
> 
> Neither works. This is a blocking issue on my Lenovo Yoga C640 without any
> LTE or ethernet fallback.

Would you be in the position for testing this with a current bullseye
installer?
There have been major improvements regarding firmware installation 
shortly before the release of Bullseye.
You will need to use one of the unofficial images with firmware included 
for such test:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/


Thanks
Holger



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