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

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Hi all,

Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> wrote (Sun, 29 Aug 2021 21:06:11 +0200):
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> 
> 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/

Would you be in the position to test this with a Debian Bullseye installer, from
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.2.0+nonfree/ ?
(unofficial, due to non-free firmware)


Thanks

Holger


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