• debian wi-fi?

    From Jude DaShiell@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 15 17:00:02 2024
    Many other linux flavors connect through our wi-fi network with no problem. Debian for whatever reason cannot connect. I learned this trying to install bookworm and I have no ethernet available. How is our wi-fi network so misconfigured that debian
    cannot get to the internet?

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  • From Andrew M.A. Cater@21:1/5 to Jude DaShiell on Sun Sep 15 17:30:01 2024
    On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 10:31:18AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
    Many other linux flavors connect through our wi-fi network with no problem. Debian for whatever reason cannot connect. I learned this trying to install bookworm and I have no ethernet available. How is our wi-fi network so misconfigured that debian
    cannot get to the internet?


    Jude:

    More details please:

    Which version of Debian?

    Which other Linuxes have you tried?

    Also:

    Which laptop / desktop hardware?

    Does Debian report missing hardware when you do dmesg | less or journalctl?

    Which desktop environment installed and, crucially, which network client?

    if you tried to install Bookworm - did you do so with the latest install
    medium and did you try expert mode?

    Network Manager / nmcli / nm-tui generally work to establish some sort of connection if WiFi hardware is found.

    Without details, everyone's pretty much in the dark here.
    This is probably a more appropriate question for the debian-user mailing
    list - follow-up st to there.

    All the very best, as ever,

    Andrew Cater
    (amacater@debian.org)

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