[SOLVED] Installing on a Lenovo Yoga 900 - wireless troubles

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 20:15:20

I am trying to install Bunsen on a Lenovo Yoga 900. I have the proper bios installed and switched to ACHI mode. Link to that for other interested/confused parties: http://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/produ … s/DS119354

Wireless works fine in Ubuntu installs and in Arch (though 'rfkill unblock all' is neccessary). I have tried Helium and Deuterium isos as well as Stretch and Jessie and their respective non-free versions and I can't get any of them installed because my network hardware drivers won't load.

Debian Stretch asks for iwlwifi-8000c-17.ucode through iwlwifi-8000c-26.ucode. I found them all and tried to load them via usb and it's not working.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-04-22 23:22:24)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 20:32:40

This Debian stretch ISO image will work with your hardware:

https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unof … 64/iso-cd/

We have a helium-dev netinstall script that can be applied to the stretch system after installation:

https://github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-ne … helium-dev

Alternatively, use the normal BunsenLabs ISO image to install the system then upgrade the kernel & firmware-iwlwifi packages to the versions available from the jessie-backports repositories.

https://backports.debian.org/

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 20:42:40

Pretty sure I tried this one, but I'll try it again just in case I missed something. Thanks

EDIT: It doesn't work. It still claims that the above mentioned firmware files are missing and when I plug in a usb drive with those files it doesn't register them.

Last edited by hippietilley (2017-04-22 20:48:54)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 21:01:35

Please post the exact command(s) used to transfer the ISO image to the USB stick.

when I plug in a usb drive with those files it doesn't register them.

Did you use <Ctrl>+<Alt>+F2 to switch to a console screen and check the output of `dmesg` after you plugged the stick?

The same information should be printed to TTY4

Was the USB stick FAT-formatted and were the firmware files placed in a folder called /firmware?

https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch … 04.html.en

EDIT: this information should be in your posts already btw...

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-04-22 21:02:55)

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 21:10:25

The USB stick in question is formatted as FAT32 and the firmware files were on the root of the drive, which the documentation said would be okay.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 21:16:15

hippietilley wrote:

EDIT: It doesn't work. It still claims that the above mentioned firmware files are missing

To be absolutely clear here: the ISO image to which I linked already has the firmware and so should *not* be requesting that you provide any.

If that image is not working for you then there must be an error in whichever super-secret mystery method you are using to put it on your installation medium, hence my (unanswered) query:

I wrote:

Please post the exact command(s) used to transfer the ISO image to the USB stick.

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 21:20:42

I tried putting the files in /firmware and it still didn't work. Is there any way to run rfkill (or some other method to remove a softblock) during installation?

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 21:23:22

I'm using rufus to write the iso to usb.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 21:23:55

hippietilley wrote:

Is there any way to run rfkill (or some other method to remove a softblock) during installation?

Use <Ctrl>+<Alt>+F2 to switch to a TTY and use:

# rfkill unblock all

No idea if that will actually work though.

You can check if the connection works by attempting to bring it up:

# ip link set $interface up

Replace $interface with the actual name of the interface, use `ip link` (no arguments) to find this, it will be something like wlp2s0

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 21:24:28

hippietilley wrote:

I'm using rufus to write the iso to usb.

Did you select the "DD" [sic] mode?

The image will not work unless that is used.

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 21:27:03

Yep, rufus defaults to writing this image in dd mode.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 21:30:43

Try usbwriter instead, that always seems to work and it never attempts to modify the image.

My questions about `dmesg` and the TTY4 log screen are still not answered

We could at least check if the installer kernel recognises the USB stick & filesystem.

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 21:33:36

I'll try usbwriter. The drive did show up in the output from dmesg, but I'm not typing all of that in and I can't copy and paste from my laptop to my desktop.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 21:38:13

hippietilley wrote:

but I'm not typing all of that in and I can't copy and paste from my laptop to my desktop.

No indeed, perish the thought.

If we do need to see extended terminal output, pastebinit can be used to generate URLs from the command line

hippietilley · 2017-04-22 21:45:47

I see wifi!! Also rufus sucks apparently. Thank you! Debian is installing now

Head_on_a_Stick · 2017-04-22 23:22:03

hippietilley wrote:

rufus sucks

+1

Glad you got it sorted, I have marked the thread [SOLVED] for the benefit of others.

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