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The firmware you need hasn't been backported yet but is in Testing.

firmware-iwlwifi has no dependencies so I'd suggest downloading it from Testing repos and manually installing it. You can grab it from here - https://packages.debian.org/trixie/all/firmware-iwlwifi/download

cd to where you downloaded the firmware and as root: apt install ./irmware-iwlwifi_20230625-2_all.deb Reboot and your wireless should work just fine.

Good luck -


Thanks, this looks like a promising approach but I am ...

Hello @hammondo,

May you report the full message log from the kernel about missing firmware ? You can use the command (root password required):

su -l -c "journalctl -b --no-pager -g iwlwifi"

Does the WiFi network adapter regularly works ?
Thanks.

Here goes: (the adapter did work at time of purchase of machine)

Feb 12 11:39:44 deb-zen kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Feb 12 11:39:44 deb-zen kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-ma-a0 ...

Hi. You could take a look here

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/wireless.html
and here too
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/



Would these two links be going to files that are necessarily part of bookworm non-free-firmware? I have looked a bit without finding any matches and I do have bookwowrm non-free-firmware included in sources.list. None of the usable files are in the /lib/firmware tree. I suppose ...

(non-free-firmware pkg already installed)

Help @hammondo,

Can you give us the model of the network adapter in your computer? There might be another thread about that model with a solution that doesn't involve copying microcode off the web.

If it can help, this is the terminal command to acquire informations about your network adapter:

lspci -vnn -d ::02xx

Any way, you can get Intel iwlwifi firmware files package from here (for Debian Bookworm):
Package: firmware-iwlwifi (20230210-5) [non-free-firmware]
If you have a working ...

Hi. You could take a look here

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005511/wireless.html
and here too
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/

Can you give us the model of the network adapter in your computer? There might be another thread about that model with a solution that doesn't involve copying microcode off the web.


The adapter model as shown in the UEFI diagnostic test is “Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 160MHz”. This matches ...

Context: running Debian 12.4 on brand new ASUS Zenbook 14. My error log says I need to install a file with name iwlwifi-ma-a0-gf-a0-NN.ucode where NN can be from 39 through 72. I have non-free-firmware in sources.list. Suggestions on how to find these files? It looks like they go in /lib/firmware....

Suggestions on where I might find these files?