Hello !

The issue is finding the right app on the archiso.  What I do, and is totally 
scriptable is to use wpa_supplicant plus dhcpd.  Both available through the 
archiso according to head of master [1].

If you know how the configurations information required for your AP, you can 
follow instruction on the archwiki [2], and I usually go for the manual 
configuration rather than the interactive process, and usually such 
configuration ends up being actually pretty basic, like for pure WPA3 [3].

Once the connection has been established, which turns the corresponding 
interface up for it, you can start the dhcpcd [4] service without initial 
configuration if having a dhcp server somewhere in your network, otherwise you 
have to configure the static routes.  For later automation, you can enable the 
wpa_supplicant hook for dhcpcd [5].

Is sounds more complicated than it actually is...  And it's been working 
through ages...

That might be an options to consider.  A non standard way would be, given you already 
have an Arch (or your derivative of choice) working on your network you could "cp 
-a" the ful disk of the working system into the disk of the new box, and modify the 
usernames and such (you really need to know everything about it), and make the box boot, 
once booting into the box, then you can modify passwords and such...  This might be an 
option I'd guess, a slow one given the disk copy, though it might reduce time on 
installing and configuring packages, and so on...

Greetings !

--
Javier


[1]  
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/blob/master/configs/releng/packages.x86_64
[2]  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant
[3]  
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wpa_supplicant#Connections_to_pure_WPA3-SAE_access_points
[4]  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpcd
[5]  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dhcpcd#10-wpa_supplicant

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