Quoting ray (r...@aarden.us): > Installing stretch stops at detecting network devices. This is an attempt to > install stretch over the top of Windows 10 on a Toshiba Radius 15 with 2 each > USB2 ports and 2 each USB3 ports, and no RJ-45. Its wireless is based upon > the Intel 7265. > > I tested this laptop with the latest Debian Live on a stick and all worked > fine. Now, I am attempting an installation of stretch from a stick. > > Just before the presentation of the wireless list, the system reports the > need to install non-free: > iwlwifi-7265D-9 > iwlwifi-7265D-10 > iwlwifi-7265D-11 > iwlwifi-7265D-12 > and asks for media. [I have not been able to find those four specific files > on the Internet.] I have copied iwlwifi from Intel and from the Debian wiki > on wifi and placed the tarred files on a FAT32 formated stick in the > 'firmware' directory. When I respond 'yes' to supplying the files, the > screen blinks and returns - over and over again. If I select no, it moves to > the driver selection page. > > The network card screen comes up, I select the Intel recommended firmware > iwlsifi, but the page just recreates itself and waits for a new selection. > If I select either 'none' or 'not listed', the installation fails saying > there is no network card. > > I have obtained from Intel their suggestion as of Aug 2015: > iwlwifi-7265-ucode-25.30.14.0.tgz > I placed this on a USB stick in a subdirectory labeled 'firmware'. This was > built from Windows 7 on a FAT32 file system. > > There is also a Dynadock docking station that connects to the Toshiba via a > USB3 cable. Besides video, USB,and audio, this has an Ethernet port. I have > tried this connected to the laptop but it also requires a driver. I have > placed that driver on the firmware directory of the USB also. > > Are the four files listed above somehow inside the iwlwifi driver tgz?
The contents are: LICENSE.iwlwifi-7265-ucode README.iwlwifi-7265-ucode iwlwifi-7265-14.ucode iwlwifi-7265D-14.ucode You need to unpack with tar, and put these files themselves in your firmware directory on the stick (rather than the whole archive). Cheers, David.
