I updated the distro and wifi stopped working.

Thought maybe it was due to the non free firmware not being installed, so after some googling i installed the “firmware-linux-nonfree” package and rebooted and it did nothing, after some more googling I used “dmesg” , reviewed the fairly long log, used the debian wiki page linked in the log and installed package “firmware-iwlwifi” and it worked.

Suggestion for improvement:

  1. upgrading non free firmware should work (and yes i added “non-free-firmware” to the souces.list file before upgrading).

  2. missing non free firmware should be reported in the GUI.

  3. the package “firmware-iwlwifi” should be included in the package “firmware-linux-nonfree”

  4. debbugs (debian bug tracking system), either needs a lot of work to be just deprecated, i should be able to submit a bug using a web interface like gitea/gitlab/forejo.

  • DaBPunkt@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    For point 4: Just use “reportbug” on the command-line (no idea if there is a GUI too).

      • wiki_meOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Didn’t know this option exist, too bad it not mentioned on the wiki page for reporting a bug) a command line tool comes with it’s own set of problems IMO, and even that does not compete with the ease of just reporting in web browser.

        • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I have lost count of the number of bugs I didn’t report or didn’t add information to because of their painful mail based bug tracker.