Forgot to put this on there, but the package for Buster can be found at 
https://packages.debian.org/buster/firmware-iwlwifi

Download the .deb from the link at the bottom of that page and put it on a 
flash drive to load into the machine.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 07:46, Raymond Yang <raymond1415...@protonmail.com> 
wrote:

> Good Morning Mr. D’Costa,
>
> I just did this exact thing this Monday. What you’ll want to do is find and 
> download the firmware-iwlwifi package[1], put it onto a flash drive and plug 
> it into the laptop when it asks for the driver on removable media. The 
> software should find the file on its own and handle it from there.
>
> Best Regards,
> Raymond Yang
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 07:35, Adrian D'Costa <adriandcos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a Lenovo laptop. I don't know the model number of the laptop so I 
>> can't tell you the exact wifi device model number. Sorry about that.
>>
>> But when I tried to install Debian Buster from the non-free net installer 
>> with non-free firmware 10.2 from the website, the installer is asking me to 
>> load from a USB stick where iwlwifi-8000c- from 22.ucode to 33.ucode files 
>> are kept.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what should I do now? And why the net installer is asking 
>> for these files when the net installer already should have these files?
>>
>> I also tried installing from regular Debian Buster 10.2 net installer and 
>> the same problem persists.

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