Good evening,

First I'd like to apologise for asking this here. It's not strictly related to 
accessibility, but since I'm using the accessible Speakup driven installer, I 
thought it might be easier for members of this list to guide me if they are 
able to.

I am new to Debian, but I've heard and read a lot of praise related to how 
accessible it is compared to other distributions, therefore I was very curious 
to try it. Now, on to the problem:

I tried to install it on an unused laptop I'm having, using the iso downloaded 
from this torrent:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/10.4.0+nonfree/amd64/bt-dvd/firmware-10.4.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso.torrent

It started wonderfully, speech came  up immediately and the installation went 
smoothly until it tried to connect to the Internet. It asks for additional 
non-free firmware, unfortunately it's an Intel wireless card. It gives a list 
of files it wants in order to configure the network, which is I suppose a good 
start. Still,
1.      I have no idea where to find those files, Google didn’t help me much 
with this.
2.      If I find those files, I don’t know where exactly to paste them on the 
installation drive for it to see them.
3.      This installation iso pretends it contains non-free firmware already, 
so normally it shouldn’t ask for those files. Am I missing something?
Therefore, I had to cancel the installation, at least for the time being. It 
would be rather useless to have a system without Internet access. 

Here is the list of files the installer asks for:
iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-35.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-34.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-33.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-32.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-31.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-30.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-29.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-28.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-27.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-26.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-25.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-24.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-23.ucode
iwlwifi-8000C-22.ucode

I will be grateful for any tip that would help me make this work, I'm not ready 
to give up, would love to have one food in the world of free software, except 
for the Network card of course. *smile*

Thanks for helping the newbie, and sorry again if I'm not asking things the 
right way.

Regards from France,

Vlad.

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