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Re: Installer freeze on Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master, ath12k wifi related



Hi Ivan,

Ivan Yosifov <iyosifov@gmail.com> (2025-07-14):
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> 
> > ath12k is WIFI 7 I believe.  Those drivers all use the netlink
> > interface (as far as I know)

That's what I read numerous times, but this seems to be a misconception.
I'll follow up on the relevant bugs/MRs when I have investigated
further.

> > and the installer currently only uses the old wifi interface and
> > hence WIFI 7 doesn't work with the debian installer.
> 
> I also think it's WIFI 7. I wasn't aware of a new vs old interface,
> are there any plans to support the new one?

The first step is to warn against those and point at Debian Live images
(Debian 13). The following step is to actually add support for those
(Debian 14, *maybe* backportable to Debian 13 depending on many
factors).

> > 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.
> 
> Any way to obtain logs or something from the installer?
> Eg a debug mode which prints logs onscreen between commands or wiriting
> logs to a file on the usb stick.

You can switch to VT4, where `tail -f /var/log/syslog` is running, which
captures the kernel messages as well.

> The vast majority of people should be using usb sticks instead of
> optical discs so it should be possible to have a mutable filesystem on
> it.

The installation guide should have something about this. If the system
isn't entirely locked up (“just” the installer interface), you should be
able to run commands from other VTs (e.g. VT2, VT3). The set of commands
is limited, but mounting, copying, unmounting should work fine.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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