Am Montag, 10. Januar 2022, 16:21:25 CET schrieb Eric S Fraga: Had a similar issue with a notebook from Dell some time ago.
The reason was, that the binary firmware did not exist on on the installer cdrom or dvd. The network interface was just too new! This is a problem with debian's policy and installer isos: They are sometimes too old for newer hardware. And also the installer kernel is sometimes too old for modern hardware. My solution would be, to put the latest kernel and all latest firmware and whatever the modern hardware needs, to be recognized, fort installation. After the installation has finished, the installer could deinstall all unneeded staff. Yes, I know, this is not debian style, but would be my style. Don't anger at me. Best Hans > On Saturday, 8 Jan 2022 at 20:07, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > If you can bear it: reinstall, using the unofficial image, including > > non-free firmware. > > I had to do this for a recently purchased Dell laptop with Intel NIC > on-board. Worked just fine this way but wouldn't install without the > non-free firmware as it couldn't find the network.
