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Wireless Intel connections on debian

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

The solution 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 (shutdown -r now)

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 "wifi-name" connection.autoconnect yes

If you can't ping you might need to disable the ethernet interface

ip link set down

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