On 27/07/2025 at 20:07, Jonathan Kamens wrote:Correct, the Debian live thumb drive never prompts for for the firmware file and still successfully connects to the WiFi.
(...)
However, after that, _it did not prompt me for which WiFi network to
use or for the password for that network_. It just went into
"Detecting Link", which failed
Note that when I boot from a Debian Trixie live image straight into
GNOME running from the thumb drive, I _am_ able to connect to the WiFi
network by opening the GNOME menu from the top right corner of the
screen and clicking on WiFi. So Trixie _is_ capable of connecting to
my WiFi using the controller in my new computer;
Without installing the firmware file you mentioned above ? It is not present in the firmware-iwlwifi package, so it should not be present in the live image either.
Quite possible, since I believe that the WiFi device provided by my motherboard / CPU combination is a WiFi 7 device.
it's just that the installer isn't.
This may be a duplicate of bugs #1095302 and #1103993 (netcfg does not support Wi-Fi 7 devices).
What is the wireless controller model ?
Can you do a quick test in the live system ?
Run the command "/sbin/iwconfig" and check if it reports wireless extensions on the wireless interface wl*. You need to install the package wireless-tools if the command is missing.
It reports "no wireless extensions" for the wlp131s0f0 device.
jik