On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 19:10:45 +0000 Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 13:52:02 -0500, deb wrote:Simplified query: After installing Debian 9.7, without Networking, and without an Ethernet connection, how does one go about installing Intel Wireless (with the non-free bits available on a USB drive)?Firmware (free or non-free) goes in /lib/firmware.
Solved. Dropping the iwlwifi-8265-22.ucode (and -21.ucode just to be safe) into /lib/firmware AND REBOOTING brought the system right into functioning wifi networking.The spurious -26, -25, -24, -23.ucode files that the network installation section
of the off-line 9.6 and 9.7 installs had requested; do not seem to be required.
Of course, /etc/apt/sources.list was still pointing at the cdrom repository and needed to be updated after everything was running to point to the stretch repositories.
Everything is running fine. Thank you all.