Re: [Bookworm] installer stops due to missing wifi firmware

I tried with these 2 installers:

7da925a34f6f7ab6e39ad64514139afb debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-DVD-1.iso
547c0e2f85ec04ffec6d08a1e84c64e6 debian-bookworm-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso

both contain firmware-misc-nonfree_20230117-2_all.deb

which is, I guess, where it's trying to load the firmware from.

There's a newer version of the firmware in testing though: firmware-misc-nonfree_20230210-4_all.deb

I noticed there's a second installer in the snapshots section, it also fails to load the firmware but the installation continues correctly to the next step

aa5e3fe762300ba87fce77a6bf260a3e debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Regards

-Ismael

El mié, 29 mar 2023 a la(s) 09:16, David Wright (deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk) escribió:

On Tue 28 Mar 2023 at 12:57:28 (-0600), Ismael Farfán wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install Bookworm on a G513QY laptop with MT7921 wifi adapter.
>
> As soon as the installer (Net or DVD) tries to detect the HW, the installer
> stops blank.
>
> The last thing I see in dmesg is something like
> Detected ethernet HW, renamed to eth0 (succeed)
> then... :
> Failed to load mt7821 firmware (lots of this)
> hardware init failed
> [ loaded modules]
> [ stack trace ]
> <TASK>
> rfkill
> wiphy
> ieee802
>
>
> Any ideas or workaround for this?
>
> I also tried with the advanced installer from the DVD but it always wants
> to try detecting the network HW and stops there.

You need to post the full names of what you used to install with.
It's likely that your downloads aren't the firmware-inclusive
versions that you need. If so, you need to download one containing
the non-free firmware, which appears to be available:

* MediaTek MT7921 hdr firmware, version 20230117170855a
(mediatek/WIFI_MT7961_patch_mcu_1_2_hdr.bin)
* MediaTek MT7921 firmware, version 20230117170942
(mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7961_1.bin)

It's also /possible/ that the bookworm installer is still not
production-ready yet.

Cheers,
David.