fixed: installer fails to install the firmware-iwlwifi

[vilde]

The installer in Razor-qt, xfce and Lxde asked me to install the firmware for my wlan device. It succeed to get the non-free repos there but does not install the firmware when I press the button to install the modules. Sorry but it's not working better this time. ( http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?msg=14795#14795 )

[devil]

We need the exact vendor- and product-id of your wifi-chip.
lspci -nn will tell you about it, its the stuff in the [x.x.x.]

greetz
devil

[vilde]

Running this session from live-usb, xfce 64 bit, I did reproduce the install and here is the output from the installer log

2012.11.23-09:25:27 Installing firmware...
apt-get update
Get:15 http://http.debian.net unstable/contrib Translation-en [36.9 kB]
Get:16 http://http.debian.net unstable/main Translation-en [4,090 kB]
Get:17 http://http.debian.net unstable/non-free Translation-en [71.7 kB]
Fetched 10.9 MB in 19s (556 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
fw-detect -i iwlwifi
iwlwifi

and here is a part from the output of lspci -nn

Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4236]

[michaa7]

http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=2400

but maybe related to:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1240911/
(...
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4236] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
        !!! Unknown header type 7f
...
The WiFi issues I had also indicates that these changes should be tested
on as many different systems as possible. )

[vilde]

http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=2400

but maybe related to:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1240911/
(...
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 [8086:4236] (rev ff) (prog-if ff)
        !!! Unknown header type 7f
...
The WiFi issues I had also indicates that these changes should be tested
on as many different systems as possible. )

I have no problem installing the firmware manually and after that wifi is working as it should do.

[michaa7]

...I have no problem installing the firmware manually and after that wifi is working as it should do.

Sorry, I misunderstood.