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debian wi-fi?
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Jude DaShiell
2024-09-15 15:00:02 UTC
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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?
Andrew M.A. Cater
2024-09-15 15:30:01 UTC
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Post by Jude DaShiell
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
(***@debian.org)

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