Hello, I was trying to load the firmware during the debian-installer and I was just getting prompted over and over again for the firmware without success. Hardware: The device is a Samsung NP530U4B-S02 laptop with the Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N 6230 802.11a/b/g/n .
Firmware: The necessary files that are requested byy the installer are "iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode" and "iwlwifi-6000g2b-6.ucode". Setup: I downloaded a Debian netinstall iso (version 7.8.0 on the 23/02/2015) for my architecture from the official Debian website. I created the install media on a usb flash drive with the "dd" command like I do usually with GNU/Linux distributions. On another usb flash drive formatted both as fat16 and fat32 with GParted using an msdos partition scheme (as suggested per https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en) I tried on different occasions to used the ".ucode" firmware files on the root directory of the usb flash drive and on a "/firmware" directory (on the secondary flash drive) as well as both at the same time. If I opened another tty, there were a few entries in dmesg, which read "iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: no suitable firmware found" and other lines with similar content. I knew that this firmware works, because I have had to install it in the past, but I used to have an ethernet link during install or a complete iso. Lastly, I tried loading the firmware files manually, by copying the two ".ucode" files to /lib/firmware (I had to create this directory manually) on a separate tty and then attempting to have the installer search for the drivers and I was met with success. The wireless networks were found and I was able to input my password, but I just got redirected to the wireless network list without an error message. Note: when the I used the method described by Chris Bainbridge <chris.bainbri...@gmail.com>, the installer would show a window titled something like "attempting to exchange keys with the network device", before connecting successfully, which wasn't the case for the manual loading of firmware. Note2: After loading the firmware manually during the installer, a message shows up in dmesg with the appropriate time stamp: "ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready" and on /var/log/syslog, for every entry that reads "authenticate with <router_mac_address>" there is an entry "deauthenticating from <router_mac_address> by local machine (reason=3)", when I tried to connect to my wireless network. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/blu436-smtp164681b89843a5bf2a07ba485...@phx.gbl
