Linux catch-22. In order to connect to the Internet, need to get a Wi-Fi card working. In order to get a Wi-Fi card working, need Internet to load packages to build Wi-Fi card driver. 🤔 (likely fix--mega-long Ethernet cable down the hallway and through a few rooms, temporarily).
@ai6yr My introduction to running Linux was going back and forth and back and forth dual-booting alongside Windows, where I could get online and on IRC to ask questions, then back into Linux to try the next command to try to get a working driver for my dial-up modem card. Which also means there’s the whole dialing sequence happening for every boot back to Windows.
Ran into this recently with upgrade from Bullseye to Bookworm. I did not want to run long eth, nor move kit close to router.
What is bad is that I need to be in GUI to get the WIFI enabled. Apparently, there is a way to force the WIFI to be enabled without GUI but I did that do that.
So, I did the upgrade with GUI even though I did not want to do so. It made it. But it has failed before.
I should not have to jump thru hoops to enable WIFI without GUI.
Aha! Workaround: using the mobile phone as a USB tethered Ethernet adapter. Slow, but the driver works out of the box. Now loading/attempting to build a suitable driver. #workaround
And, we're here! A few hoops, but fine for me. Looks like I'm back online with the full electronics pile (aside from the vestigial Windows machine which only runs a client for what-was-Twitter and a couple of other Windows only packages I only need every blue moon).
What's fun is tethering through a usb-c dock (with Ethernet port) into a router. Lets you make things like ethernet-only fileservers and such access the Internet if the normal WAN is down or you're in the process of moving and dont have broadband setup.
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