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Re: Debian 11: Unable to detect wireless interface on an old laptop computer



On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 04:43:44PM +0200, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> I have a dual-boot OS configuration on my HDD: Debian 11 and Microsoft Windows 10.
> 
> My CPU belongs to Intel 4th generation (Haswell) and I even installed packages such as firmware-misc-nonfree firmware-iwlwifi firmware-realtek
> 
> Microsoft Windows 10 is able to detect and makes use of the wireless chipset on my computer's motherboard.
> 
> However, Debian 11 is unable to detect it (wireless chipset). I only installed the bare minimum lxqt-core and lightdm packages (no fanciful stuff).
> 
> I issued the command:
> 
> ip link show
> 
> and there is not a line that says something like wlan or wl01 etc...
> 
> Below is the output of lspci:
> 

[...]

> 07:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)

This one looks like it might be your friend. AFAIK the firmware for that
is in the firmware-iwlwifi package.

What does `lsmod | grep iwl' say?

Cheers
 - t

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