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Debian 12 install problem (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys. Yesterday I tried installing Debian 12.2. with the easy graphical install since I was doing it first time but I got stuck on DHCP settings becaus It didnt connect to my wifi. So I ignored it for the time being but when I loaded in desktop enviroment I still saw no wifi to which I could connect to. The problem shouldnt be with my card or wifi adapter since they worked no problem on previous distros( Linux Mint, Arch and Fedora). I just dunno what to do now. Can you give me some tips? Edit: As Rignmaster said. I connected my pc to a ethernet cable and istalled debian again and that worked magic. Now I can connect to net even via my wifi adapter. Many thanks to all of you guys for tips :D

Also sorry for super long delay. Yesterday after work I went out with my boys and I got completely wasted and I needded whole day to recover xD

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry Guys I didnt expect that the responses would be this quick, my bad xD Im not home rn. So I will try out your advices when I get back home and then give you updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I asked a question on the self hosted community and I got like 10 answers within the first 10 minutes haha. Wild.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may need firmware-iwlwifi from non-free. Is the network interface even available ?

# iwconfig

Assuming it's not, what is your wifi adapter ?

$ lspci|grep -i network

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Debian 12 ships with the non-free-firmware repo enabled by default, including firmware-iwlwifi, but a few Broadcom cards, and maybe others, still require software in non-free if I recall correctly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Good to know, thanks !

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are you me? Haha.. just installed via Ethernet because it wouldn’t connect to my wifi (which works). It will connect to my phones hotspot but not my home wifi. Installed on an old trash elitebook which I think means non free, so starts my tomorrow adventure

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try 'usb tethering' from android phone if you can. Then, google the issue further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Could you run sudo lshw -C network and post the output for the wireless interface?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Hey guys, I found this great installer for debian, chek it out! It rocks for new users too, providing wifi from the start and other things like a real debian live should be: https://spirallinux.github.io