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  • Re: Installer freeze on Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master, ath12k wifi relate

    From Steve McIntyre@21:1/5 to Ivan Yosifov on Mon Jul 14 13:00:01 2025
    On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:48:16PM +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote:
    Hi,

    I tried installing with the Trixie RC2 installer on a system with Gigabyte >X870E Aorus Master motherboard and the installer freezes at the "detecting >network hardware" step. I can't type anything, but also can't change VT or >reboot with sysrq, so it's probably a kernel panic. Happens both with the RC2 >dvd image and the weekly dvd image.

    I also tried the weekly netinst image, that doesn't freeze but shows an error >about missing firmware ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/firmware-2.bin and wifi doesn't >work. I guess the firmware is present in the dvd image but somehow makes the >system crash. Isn't the firmware supposed to be included in the netinst image >also?�

    Yes, it is. The d-i and firmware bits of the netinst and DVD should be ~identical.

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  • From Lennart Sorensen@21:1/5 to Ivan Yosifov on Mon Jul 14 17:50:01 2025
    On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:48:16PM +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote:
    I tried installing with the Trixie RC2 installer on a system with Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master motherboard and the installer freezes at the "detecting network hardware" step. I can't type anything, but also can't change VT or reboot with sysrq, so it's probably a kernel panic. Happens both with the
    RC2 dvd image and the weekly dvd image.

    I also tried the weekly netinst image, that doesn't freeze but shows an
    error about missing firmware ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/firmware-2.bin and wifi doesn't work. I guess the firmware is present in the dvd image but somehow makes the system crash. Isn't the firmware supposed to be included in the netinst image also?

    If there's interest, I'd love to help debug and fix this or provide more information. The wifi works with the xubuntu 25.04 installer.

    ath12k is WIFI 7 I believe. Those drivers all use the netlink interface
    (as far as I know), and the installer currently only uses the old wifi interface and hence WIFI 7 doesn't work with the debian installer.

    After install it should work just fine though.

    Now for completely locking up that does seem weird. On my system with
    a WIFI 7 it just fails to detect it as wifi and tries to treat it as
    wired ethernet and of course fails to do anything useful with it.
    Different driver though (mine is intel).

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  • From Cyril Brulebois@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 14 18:30:01 2025
    Hi Ivan,

    Ivan Yosifov <[email protected]> (2025-07-14):
    On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 6:34 PM Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]> wrote:

    ath12k is WIFI 7 I believe. Those drivers all use the netlink
    interface (as far as I know)

    That's what I read numerous times, but this seems to be a misconception.
    I'll follow up on the relevant bugs/MRs when I have investigated
    further.

    and the installer currently only uses the old wifi interface and
    hence WIFI 7 doesn't work with the debian installer.

    I also think it's WIFI 7. I wasn't aware of a new vs old interface,
    are there any plans to support the new one?

    The first step is to warn against those and point at Debian Live images
    (Debian 13). The following step is to actually add support for those
    (Debian 14, *maybe* backportable to Debian 13 depending on many
    factors).

    Now for completely locking up that does seem weird. On my system
    with a WIFI 7 it just fails to detect it as wifi and tries to treat
    it as wired ethernet and of course fails to do anything useful with
    it.

    Any way to obtain logs or something from the installer?
    Eg a debug mode which prints logs onscreen between commands or wiriting
    logs to a file on the usb stick.

    You can switch to VT4, where `tail -f /var/log/syslog` is running, which captures the kernel messages as well.

    The vast majority of people should be using usb sticks instead of
    optical discs so it should be possible to have a mutable filesystem on
    it.

    The installation guide should have something about this. If the system
    isn't entirely locked up (“just” the installer interface), you should be able to run commands from other VTs (e.g. VT2, VT3). The set of commands
    is limited, but mounting, copying, unmounting should work fine.


    Cheers,
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    Cyril Brulebois ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/>
    D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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  • From Ben Hutchings@21:1/5 to Ivan Yosifov on Thu Jul 17 15:50:02 2025
    On Mon, 2025-07-14 at 13:48 +0300, Ivan Yosifov wrote:
    [...]
    I also tried the weekly netinst image, that doesn't freeze but shows an error about missing firmware ath12k/WCN7850/hw2.0/firmware-2.bin and wifi doesn't work.
    I guess the firmware is present in the dvd image but somehow makes the system crash. Isn't the firmware supposed to be included in the netinst image also?
    [...]

    This specific file isn't available either in Debian or in the upstream linux-firmware repository. I don't know why the driver is requesting it
    but that seems to be a driver bug.

    The kernel team received a similar bug report
    <https://bugs.debian.org/1109268> recently in which ath11k requested a
    firmware file that didn't exist. I have that bug on my list to
    investigate.

    Ben.

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