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Wireless Intel connections on debian
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debian-wifi.md

This is a guide to make newer Intel wifi cards get detected by Debian, to show ip addr show

The clue is to upgrade the kernel and intel firmware.

Import backports

echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt get update && apt get upgrade

UPGRADE intel wifi firmware & kernel:

apt-get install -t bookworm-backports linux-image-amd64 firmware-iwlwifi

apt-get install network-manager

reboot

At time of writing, the kernel upgraded from 6.1 to 6.12 or something

Connect to wifi

nmcli device wifi list

nmcli device wifi connect "BSSID" password "PASSWORD"

nmcli connection modify "BSSID" connection.autoconnect yes

If you can't ping at this point, disable the ethernet port/interface

ip link set enp1s0 down

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