Hi, I've got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon gen 4 which I'd like to try installing Debian on. Preferably stable, but I'll try with testing if necessary.
The machine has an Intel 8260 wifi which will require non-free firmware. Although it has an eth0 (e1000e), physically using that requires an adaptor, so that is not an option. As per http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/ I wrote an ISO of the current amd64 netinst including non-free firmware to a USB and booted from it. At no point does it tell me that it requires additional firmware. It also does not load iwlwifi or any of the associated wifi modules. So, given this is a netinst installer I am unable to proceed. I tried dropping to a shell and doing "modprobe iwlwifi". Although this appeared to load the module without error (lsmod shows it), it did not result in a wlan0 network device appearing. Is there any way to force the debian-installer to realise it needs to load firmware for this wifi device? I have a feeling that it is seeing there is an eth0 and giving up at that point, assuming that is good enough. All of my online research so far just shows instructions that say that the installer will ask for firmware if it thinks it needs it. Is it even possible to do a Debian install over wifi alone? I've booted an Ubuntu live environment and the wifi does work there, so am pretty sure it's just a driver/firmware issue. Cheers, Andy
