Re: Debian Buster non free net installer with firmware 10.2 is requesting for iwlwifi-8000c 22 to 33.ucode files for wifi device

[Ben Harris <ben@bhh.sh>]

On December 20, 2019 8:36:15 AM "Adrian D'Costa" <adriandcosta1@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> I have a Lenovo laptop. I don't know the model number of the laptop so I
> can't tell you the exact wifi device model number. Sorry about that.
>
> But when I tried to install Debian Buster from the non-free net installer
> with non-free firmware 10.2 from the website, the installer is asking me to
> load from a USB stick where iwlwifi-8000c- from 22.ucode to 33.ucode files
> are kept.
>
> Can anyone tell me what should I do now? And why the net installer is
> asking for these files when the net installer already should have these
> files?
>
> I also tried installing from regular Debian Buster 10.2 net installer and
> the same problem persists.

download the firmware-iwlwifi .deb, drop it on a separate flash drive and 
plug it in when prompted. I'm not sure why it's not included in the nonfree 
installer though...