Hi
I did a clean and bare metal install of Trixie on a NUC 8th gen i3.
I started of with a minimal install, using a wifi connection, and the textual installer.
I'm a seasoned debian installer ( and IT manager by trade).
I had trouble getting WPA2-PSK code accepted. First I entered some wrong characters. When I corrected them Trixie still refused to accept the code.
Then I "stepped" back in the menu and selected networking anew. My typed in password was still there. I went to the end of the string and DEL'd everything after the last 2 characters and retyped those 2.
Then it worked. I had the impression that invisible characters are added if you get it wrong the first time. This was on bare metal, so no pasting of passwords.
After rebooting I logged into Bash and did a minimal install of KDE, but including nm . That went fine, but upon rebooting wifi did not work anymore ?
As it turns out, when networkmanager detects a wifi entry in .. network/interfaces, the KDE applet is void of wifi hardware. I had to comment out the offending entry and reboot.
This could be baffling for a new user: first successfully installing debian with wifi, and then have wifi fail in KDE.
Thanks for your good work !
Ward Germonpré