Re: Installer freeze on Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master, ath12k wifi related
On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:48:16PM +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote:
> I tried installing with the Trixie RC2 installer on a system with Gigabyte
> X870E Aorus Master motherboard and the installer freezes at the "detecting
> network hardware" step. I can't type anything, but also can't change VT or
> reboot with sysrq, so it's probably a kernel panic. Happens both with the
> RC2 dvd image and the weekly dvd image.
>
> I also tried the weekly netinst image, that doesn't freeze but shows an
> error about missing firmware ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/firmware-2.bin and wifi
> doesn't work. I guess the firmware is present in the dvd image but somehow
> makes the system crash. Isn't the firmware supposed to be included in the
> netinst image also?
>
> If there's interest, I'd love to help debug and fix this or provide more
> information. The wifi works with the xubuntu 25.04 installer.
ath12k is WIFI 7 I believe. Those drivers all use the netlink interface
(as far as I know), and the installer currently only uses the old wifi
interface and hence WIFI 7 doesn't work with the debian installer.
After install it should work just fine though.
Now for completely locking up that does seem weird. On my system with
a WIFI 7 it just fails to detect it as wifi and tries to treat it as
wired ethernet and of course fails to do anything useful with it.
Different driver though (mine is intel).
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Len Sorensen
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