[PLUG] Help Bootstrapping Debian
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
Sat Jan 4 12:20:13 UTC 2025
My initial reading about the motherboard indicates it has a mediatek
wifi 6 radio. The open source drivers are probably included in Debian,
but the firmware blobs for the radio maybe aren't. So, you need to
look in dmesg to see what files it is looking for, in what path. One
suggestion is to boot a live Ubuntu, that has a better chance of
installing non-free bits and bobs, and see what it loads, make copies
of the firmware blobs on detachable media and then supply them during
the Debian installation. Here's what I see in my
/lib/firmware/mediatek on Ubuntu 22.04:
$ find /lib/firmware/mediatek/ -type f
/lib/firmware/mediatek/BT_RAM_CODE_MT7961_1_2_hdr.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt8173/vpu_p.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt8173/vpu_d.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/WIFI_MT7961_patch_mcu_1_2_hdr.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7925/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7925_1_1.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7925/BT_RAM_CODE_MT7925_1_1_hdr.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7925/WIFI_MT7925_PATCH_MCU_1_1_hdr.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7663_n9_v3.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7915_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7981_wa.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_wa.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7615_n9.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/WIFI_MT7922_patch_mcu_1_1_hdr.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7996/mt7996_wm.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7996/mt7996_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7996/mt7996_dsp.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7996/mt7996_eeprom.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7996/mt7996_wa.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_eeprom_mt7976.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7650e.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7981_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7610u.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7622_n9.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_eeprom_mt7975_dual.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7915_wa.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/BT_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1_1_hdr.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7916_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7915_eeprom.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7663pr2h.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7916_wm.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7622pr2h.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7915_wm.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt8183/scp.img
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7668pr2h.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7915_eeprom_dbdc.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7916_wa.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7981_wm.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7663_n9_rebb.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7922_1.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7663pr2h_rebb.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7615_cr4.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7610e.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7662u.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_eeprom_mt7976_dual.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_rom_patch_mt7975.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/WIFI_RAM_CODE_MT7961_1.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_wm.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7615_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7662u_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7622_rom_patch.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_wm_mt7975.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7986_eeprom_mt7976_dbdc.bin
/lib/firmware/mediatek/mt7916_eeprom.bin
My guess is, it's looking for one or more of those and not finding
them. But, like I said, connecting to ethernet is probably easier.
--
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> The easiest is to connect via ethernet.
>
> --
> Russell Senior
> russell at personaltelco.net
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM Nathan Petrangelo <nathan at petrangelo.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I’m bootstrapping Debian 12 on my new PC with an Asus B550M-A WiFi II motherboard and the correct WiFi driver appears to not be built into the iso, initially preventing network autoconfig from working and eventually preventing me from connecting to the Debian mirrors and installing a desktop environment.
> >
> > Does anyone have experience making this particular bootstrap work?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan Petrangelo
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