You should only quote the part of the post you are responding to, if that's not obvious from context.

The only case for quoting all of a post is a small (~1 line) post several posts back in the thread to indicate which post you are responding to.

Thanks

But seriously, on one of the sites in the response window, when you clicked the “Quote” button, only the selected text appeared, and not the entire message.
But that's it...

The only case for quoting all of a post is a small (~1 line) post several posts back in the thread to indicate which post you are responding to.

Should quick reply be used instead?

I read the sticky you linked but don't understand because of a disability.

Refer to this sticky for more info.

...make sure you have seatd installed.

Other than that, I'm not sure (I don't know).

How do I install seatd if it's not installed?

Fantastic news everyone!

Performing the fresh installation again was a complete success and I'm very pleased!

Wifi is working and Devuan looks exceptionally nice on my Gibabyte monitor.

Thank you all for helping me and GlennW thanks for your time and assistance.
Plugging in the usb during the install found the .ucode w/o a hitch. Firefox run's great.

Other than that, I'm not sure (I don't know).

Hi, I still think you may need to install that firmware correctly.

When you installed, did give the firmware .ucode at installation (early) off a usb-stick. Usually that sticks, and carries through to being installed.

With that iso, be aware SEATD did not install, and that gave me a black screen. I had to see the errors in the logs to find out the missing bits.

Have a look inside the package we were talking about, and check the text files for instal clues. It should install, but it may not be Auto-Magic.

I'm using plasma, not gnome... see how you go.

No, I didn't know that I should have plugged in the thumb drive with the .ucode during the installation.

I did plug in the thumb drive with the .ucode on it after the fresh installation copied it to my Downloads directory and with root privileges:  moved it to /lib/firmware/intel/.
*BTW, the iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-34.ucode was already in /lib/firmware directory.

Currently I have an all black screen where my name shows and my password is typed in.
The screen is locked up and  holding down Ctrl + Del, or Ctrl + F1 or F2 won't give me a tty to shutdown more gracefully.

How do I fix this?

When you installed, did give the firmware .ucode at installation (early) off a usb-stick. Usually that sticks, and carries through to being installed.

With that iso, be aware SEATD did not install, and that gave me a black screen. I had to see the errors in the logs to find out the missing bits.

Have a look inside the package we were talking about, and check the text files for instal clues. It should install, but it may not be Auto-Magic.

I'm using plasma, not gnome... see how you go.

right-click, download.

If you're on the command line, you could try wget

change to the download directory and run wget <url>

cd/glenn/Downloads
wget https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware/+/b5f09bb4f816abace0227d0f4e749859364cef6b/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode

Then, as root move or copy it to where it belongs. It's a bit hackkky.

On my box it's at

/lib/firmware/

if required... mine does bt as well AND

that is located at the little i intel folder (on my quite fresh install of Dev5)

/lib/firmware/intel/

No "/lib/firmware/Intel" folder at all!

I have unpacked packages just to see what is in there... usually 2 folders, compiled-code and install control (what to do to install)

anyhow, I hope this helps.

I don't know enough about firmware...

Thank you for your help GlenW.

Moving the .ucode to /lib/firmware did not help after a reboot. The Wifi still isn't working.

There were other things about the system that were missing and I didn't have functionality like I should have. Arrow keys, forward and backward buttons were not present to move from directory to directory and other key things were just not in place to have a functional desktop system.

After downloading the full devuan amd64  bit .iso that is 3.7 Gig's last night I have decided this morning to perform a fresh install with that fresh .iso.

I'll be back to share how the fresh installation went.

I'm in the middle of the fresh installation. After I create a 500 MB Fat 32 partition and a /ext4 partition on the Samsung nvme I select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk"

The Partition MGR only shows the 500 MB partition and the other 2 swap partitons on the other drives on my desktop to be formatted.
The 249. GB partition that I created for the /root partition doesn't show.

UPDATE* Good news is I was able to figure out how to partition correctly and Devuan is now install and under Cinnamon works.
Gnome boots to a all black screen.

The wifi isn't working so I will try to do exactly as you have taught me in the above post's by placing the /iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-34.ucode
in the /lib/firmware directory.

# update-initramfs -u -k all

as root to tell the kernel to load this firmware.

If you're on the command line, you could try wget

change to the download directory and run wget <url>

cd/glenn/Downloads
wget https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware/+/b5f09bb4f816abace0227d0f4e749859364cef6b/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode

Then, as root move or copy it to where it belongs. It's a bit hackkky.

On my box it's at

/lib/firmware/

if required... mine does bt as well AND

that is located at the little i intel folder (on my quite fresh install of Dev5)

/lib/firmware/intel/

No "/lib/firmware/Intel" folder at all!

I have unpacked packages just to see what is in there... usually 2 folders, compiled-code and install control (what to do to install)

anyhow, I hope this helps.

I don't know enough about firmware...

Hi, the firmware I use is... and I keep a copy on usb-stick for installations...

file:///media/glenn/ED21-8671/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode

My wifi/bt pcie card, not on-board.

makesure you have "non-free-firmware" added to your sources... /etc/apt/sources.list

firmware-iwlwifi non-free-firmware 20230210-5 (i am using)

I hope this helps.

Thanks, I checked my sources list and all of the entries show non-free-firmware.
I found this page with the /iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode on it but I don't understand how to download it to get it.
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm … 59364cef6b

Good News!
I found the .ucode here.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en … eless.html

Now if I understand correctly I need to put it in the correct place, right?
I have the /iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-34.618819 folder. And inside that folder is a file that is the actual /home/cora/Downloads/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-34.618819/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-34.ucode.

Do I place the folder in /lib/firmware/Intel or do I place the file with the .ucode in the /lib/firmware/Intel directory?