I fixed the problem by installing from Debian live DVD with Buster's firmware-all.
That did the trick. Thank you all. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:10 PM Raymond Yang <raymond1415...@protonmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > > > > >
