• installer can't detect my usb adapter

    From lou@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 3 01:40:01 2023
    i have realtek 8188eus usb adapter, it works in buster

    but after reboot, it can't be recognized, i have to unplug and plug usb
    adapter to help detection. this isn't big inconvenience for me because i
    rarely reboot

    my problem is bullseye installer can't detect it even after i unplug and
    plug it. i run "modprobe r8188eu" in installer's terminal, it doesn't 
    help detection. lsusb command doesn't exist. if wifi isn't setup by
    installer, then i am unable to setup it after installation because of
    some debian bug

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  • From Timothy M Butterworth@21:1/5 to loushanguan2015@sina.com on Tue Jan 3 01:50:01 2023
    On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 7:35 PM lou <loushanguan2015@sina.com> wrote:

    i have realtek 8188eus usb adapter, it works in buster

    but after reboot, it can't be recognized, i have to unplug and plug usb adapter to help detection. this isn't big inconvenience for me because i rarely reboot

    my problem is bullseye installer can't detect it even after i unplug and
    plug it. i run "modprobe r8188eu" in installer's terminal, it doesn't
    help detection. lsusb command doesn't exist. if wifi isn't setup by installer, then i am unable to setup it after installation because of
    some debian bug


    Which installation medium are you using? I have a RealTek WiFi adapter and
    it requires the non-free installer for binary blobs to work.

    https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/

    Tim

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    <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 7:35 PM lou &lt;<a href="mailto:loushanguan2015@sina.com" target="_blank">loushanguan2015@sina.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><
    blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">i have realtek 8188eus usb adapter, it works in buster<br>

    but after reboot, it can&#39;t be recognized, i have to unplug and plug usb <br>
    adapter to help detection. this isn&#39;t big inconvenience for me because i <br>
    rarely reboot<br>

    my problem is bullseye installer can&#39;t detect it even after i unplug and <br>
    plug it. i run &quot;modprobe r8188eu&quot; in installer&#39;s terminal, it doesn&#39;t  <br>
    help detection. lsusb command doesn&#39;t exist. if wifi isn
  • From lou@21:1/5 to Timothy M Butterworth on Tue Jan 3 02:00:01 2023
    On 1/3/23 08:41, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:



    Which installation medium are you using? I have a RealTek WiFi adapter
    and it requires the non-free installer for binary blobs to work.

    https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/

    Tim

    Thank Tim, i use debian-11.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso, i don't use unofficial
    images

    after recognition it shall prompt me for non-free firmware, but it can't recognize it

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  • From David Wright@21:1/5 to lou on Tue Jan 3 03:30:02 2023
    On Tue 03 Jan 2023 at 08:52:07 (+0800), lou wrote:
    On 1/3/23 08:41, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:

    Which installation medium are you using? I have a RealTek WiFi
    adapter and it requires the non-free installer for binary blobs to
    work.

    https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/

    Thank Tim, i use debian-11.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso, i don't use
    unofficial images

    after recognition it shall prompt me for non-free firmware, but it
    can't recognize it

    One approach you might be able to use is to copy the firmware that
    buster is using and place it in the equivalent location in your
    bullseye.

    For example, my NIC uses (as seen by dmesg):

    r8169 0000:03:00.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw

    and my old buster installation on this machine has that file at:

    $ ls -l /buster/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4896 Aug 22 2019 /buster/lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw
    $

    (/buster is where I mounted the old buster root filesystem,
    readonly, when bullseye is running.)

    My bullseye has:

    $ ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4896 Jul 25 2021 /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2.fw
    $

    and cmp shows that the two versions are identical, despite the timestamps.

    Just take care to create any subdirectories required (like the rtl_nic
    here).

    Cheers,
    David.

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  • From Timothy M Butterworth@21:1/5 to loushanguan2015@sina.com on Tue Jan 3 04:30:03 2023
    On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 7:55 PM lou <loushanguan2015@sina.com> wrote:

    On 1/3/23 08:41, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:



    Which installation medium are you using? I have a RealTek WiFi adapter
    and it requires the non-free installer for binary blobs to work.


    https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/

    Tim

    Thank Tim, i use debian-11.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso, i don't use unofficial images

    non-free is an official image and it is merging with the free installer
    for Bookworm.


    after recognition it shall prompt me for non-free firmware, but it can't recognize it



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    <div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 7:55 PM lou &lt;<a href="mailto:loushanguan2015@sina.com">loushanguan2015@sina.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;
    border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 1/3/23 08:41, Timothy M Butterworth wrote:<br>

    &gt;<br>
    &gt;<br>
    &gt; Which installation medium are you using? I have a RealTek WiFi adapter <br>
    &gt; and it requires the non-free installer for binary blobs to work.<br> &gt;<br>
    &gt; <a href="https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/
    amd64/iso-dvd/</a><br>
    &gt;<br>
    &gt; Tim<br>
    &gt;<br>
    Th