On Mon 07 Mar 2016 at 03:39:26 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> 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?
1. Stop at the 'Detect network hardware' stage and switch to a console.
2. Unpack the .deb for the firmware you want:
ar -x /cdrom/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/<your_firmware.deb>
3. Uncompress data.tar.xz:
unxz data.tar.xz
4. Install the firmware in /lib/firmware:
tar xvf data.tar
5. Proceed with detecting network hardware and configuring the network.
