What do you do? This has been a problem that once plagued Linux for a very long time. But recent years have seen massive improvement in the way of hardware support. Before we get too far into this, know that there is a Debian non-free release that does, in fact, contain the firmware necessary to run most hardware. This process can work for just about any hardware on your system.
I will, however, explain the process using a wireless adapter as an example. The first thing you need to do is start the Debian installation. However, there is one very important step you need to catch and not just immediately click through the page.
At some point, before the installation starts, a screen will appear warning you that some of your hardware needs non-free firmware files to operate Figure 1. If, however, you do not see the hardware listed, continue on with the installation.
When the installation completes, it will be necessary to do a bit of digging to find out what hardware your machine has. The best route would be to run a live distribution, such as Ubuntu, that does work with the wireless card. With that information in hand, reboot into Debian and continue on. There are two routes to success at this point. If you already have the correct firmware files, you can save them to a thumbdrive FAT32 format and plug it into the machine so the installer can find the files and apply them.
This is not always the most reliable method. First, download the tar file of the full firmware package from here make sure to navigate through to the release you are using. Unpack the. Re: iwlwifi missing firmware, cannot install debian Post by pentode » If you are wanting to do the net install via a wireless connection, that is often problematic due to the proprietary drivers required for a lot of the wireless chipsets. If you have any way of establishing a wired Ethernet connection at least for the initial installation, life will be much simpler.
Re: iwlwifi missing firmware, cannot install debian Post by sugarhigh » Must have forgot to mention that I do have a wired connection and have tried disabling the wireless on the laptop and connecting that way but I still receive the message about the iwlwifi and am unable to connect to a mirror for downloads.
Re: iwlwifi missing firmware, cannot install debian Post by sugarhigh » Still no luck I am not sure if it matters much but that is the -4 version and no -2 or -1, but as far as I can tell it loads the driver then tries to set up my wireless but cannot detect any available wireless connection at which point it requests me to provide my wireless essid and password, I set the ssid back to default on my router and removed the password so there would be no mistakes but it fails to connect still.
Re: iwlwifi missing firmware, cannot install debian Post by pentode » It may be that the installer is not detecting your wired connection. It should not really care about the wireless connection if it has a functioning Ethernet link. What version of Debian are you trying to install and where did you get the netinstall CD?
It sometimes help to grab another installer from Debian website. The daily builds of Testing are worth a try. If you have a functioning wired connection, you might get a warning about the wireless NIC, but I don't know why the installer would quit.
Re: iwlwifi missing firmware, cannot install debian Post by sugarhigh » It is a testing build, however maybe I will have better luck if I grab a daily snapshot, I had the same issues with the stable build. Downloaded the installers from Debian. Re: iwlwifi missing firmware, cannot install debian Post by jheaton5 » I get the same message everytime I do a fresh install.
I always install over ethernet and then install the appropriate firmware. It's kinda a pretty manual approach, but thanks to that you get the live-cd's kernel 2. As for the wireless drivers. They still are under heavy development. I really don't know what's this "injection" or "aircrack" that you speak of, but in my case, I'm checking the driver's homepage on a weekly basis and when there's a new version I download it and replaced the older one that's working in my system BTW that's what "make uninstall" is for , namely to delete previously installed modules.
PS: do you use IM? You could contact me and we could get more in-depth with your problems cheers. I was just wondering if the 2. Or do I need 2. The laptop is a second hand T60 m.
I had some hardware issues that I had to work out and now that the thing is working properly, it's on to software issues. I originally had etch on it, and tried to compile and install the 2. I think it compiled OK, but I came unstuck when I tried to boot the new kernel and it gave me the error message as seen in this thread attempted to kill init! I think my problem was something to do with my SATA drive not being recognised properly with the image I made using mkinitrd, so then I tried to make another one using initramfs, but this didn't seem to work for me either.
I then figured I was still too much of a noob to be screwing around with compiling kernels and such and I had only succeeded in confusing myself more, so I thought I'd give Lenny a go And here I am. I can see there's a lot of information out there on compiling kernels and stuff, but I'm just having a hard time connecting the dots.
Is there some information anyone can recommend that is nice and up to date? As I don't think I have the history with Linux to know what methods I should be using and what methods may be out of date. Using initramfs instead of mkinitrd for example. I also understand that there is a non-free driver available from Intel, is it easier to use this method for getting the wireless working?
Does it also need the mac sub system? Post by Wojtek » The mac is built-in the kernel since 2. Even the stock debian kernels have it enabled, so one doesn't even need to configure the kernel manually if he doesn't want to. Just type in "modprobe mac" and there you have it.
Kernel images don't have anything to do with SATA controllers in most cases, but they won't boot if you don't have the drivers that you need enabled, that's kinda obvious. A good replacement for initramfs is yaird. You should screw around with the kernel for your own good. When I first had a go at it, I've done it like 10 times in the span of 2 days till I got it right. But I took my time, read about almost every option and if I had doubts I used my trusty web browser to look-up info.
Later on when I had to manually compile my kernel from scratch had a format , it only took me minutes or so. On my new laptop it was like 2 hours, because the hardware was like 3 years newer than my desktop, so I had to disable some options and enable others, which wasn't needed on my desktop. There aren't any "ultimate" guides, mainly because there's just so much options in the kernel and everybody has a different setup and needs, so it would be quite hard to satisfy anybody with it.
Anyway, you don't need to setup "everything" right away. You can like: change some options, compile it, try if it works, fidget with it some more, then "oops" doesn't work, correct errors, etc.
That's the safe way to go for a newbie kernel compiler I think. Getting back to your wireless problems. You have the older version of the wireless chip, the ipw You don't need the iwlwifi driver to run this, although it's also supported. And the mac module is needed only by the iwlwifi driver.
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