Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Boot method: USB Image version: debian-bookworm-DI-rc2-amd64-netinst.iso (downloaded 2023-05-05)
Machine: Lenovo IdeaPad 5 Base System Installation Checklist: [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it Initial boot: [O] Detect network card: [E] Configure network: [ ] Detect media: [ ] Load installer modules: [ ] Clock/timezone setup: [ ] User/password setup: [ ] Detect hard drives: [ ] Partition hard drives: [ ] Install base system: [ ] Install tasks: [ ] Install boot loader: [ ] Overall install: [E] Comments/Problems: Sadly, another failed attempt to install Debian on my brand-new Lenovo IdeaPad 5, this time using a USB dongle equiped with the Realtek RTL8188EUS chip set. The installer failed to detect the network adapter and presented me with a list of kernel modules, none of which got my device to work. This is what dmesg reports after I plug the adapter into a USB port on my current device, which is obviously not the same one as the report applies to (which is why I removed all of the appended logs): [42871.476218] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 19 using xhci_hcd [42871.624725] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=8179, bcdDevice= 0.00 [42871.624729] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [42871.624731] usb 1-4: Product: 802.11n NIC [42871.624732] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Realtek [42871.624733] usb 1-4: SerialNumber: 00E04C0001 [42871.936975] r8188eu: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned. [42871.970033] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8188eu [42872.005633] r8188eu 1-4:1.0 wlx482254c71aaf: renamed from wlan0 [42872.597812] r8188eu 1-4:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin [42872.597825] r8188eu 1-4:1.0: Firmware Version 11, SubVersion 1, Signature 0x88e1 [42881.731472] r8188eu 1-4:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin Interstingly, calling dmesg on the system where the installation attempt failed, the line starting with 42871.936975,i.e. where the actual kernel module is loaded, and all following ones are omitted. Hope this helps! Cheers, - Fabian