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 [email protected] On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > > The easiest is to connect via ethernet. > > -- > Russell Senior > [email protected] > > On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 2:58 AM Nathan Petrangelo <[email protected]> > 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
