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.
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I asked a question on the self hosted community and I got like 10 answers within the first 10 minutes haha. Wild.
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
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
Good to know, thanks !
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
Big thanks to you my man. This was the first thing I tried and it worked perfectly. So once again thank you very much :)
Your phone but not your home wifi? But it detects it?
I remember long time ago HP put wifi cards in some.laptops that had two antennas and only connect one. That worked fine on windows with the HP provided wifi drivers but Linux drivers were using the disconnected one by mistake which cause it to only detect wifi spots very near to it. You had to somehow change it so the driver used the other antenna.
Until I found out what it was it gave a lot of headaches... It also caused issue with Bluetooth as the wifi worked terrible when using the Bluetooth or vice versa... That part I didn't solve it.
Could you run sudo lshw -C network and post the output for the wireless interface?
Try 'usb tethering' from android phone if you can. Then, google the issue further.
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