Finally I went ahead without the firmware files and installed the Debian 8.0. And now it's working just fine! Perhaps due to the fact that I selected the mirror and fetched packages from Internet (using Ethernet) during installation.
My advice will be : Do not try to use firmware files at the time of installation. Though you'll follow the official Debian Installation Guide, "loading firmware at the time of install" most probably not gonna work. First you'll be posed with GPT error (with Gparted and Disks applications) when you'll try to create a new FAT partition (as suggested in Installation Guide). Then you'll think to use fdisk command line utility to make you way and though you'll be able to create the partition using fdisk, you'll be posed with missing kernel modules message during installation and thus will leave you no choice but to continue install *without* loading the firmware files. In short though official Debian Installation Guide discusses about loading the firmware files alongside the Debian installation image on a single USB stick, the mechanism is most probably screwed up. Hope that changes till next release. Thank you for your help. PS- If your Ethernet firmware is missing too (with wireless) then first install the Debian and then download the firmware files using another machine and then manually copy/configure the files in installed Debian system. -- Avinash Sonawane (RootKea) PICT, Pune http://rootkea.wordpress.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caj9bsw_tnywf-yrwkjfpro8+bunszeclt8w6_oejzmfimot...@mail.gmail.com
