Lennart Sorensen <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (2025-04-25): > I get the impression most laptops shipping now are wifi 7. Most > machines I have seen in the last year had had it at least.
That's a useful data point, thanks. I'm not sure I can commit to giving it a try, but it might be worth pinging the DPL to get some test machines sent out. > I can certainly test it. I asked a few months ago about how a desired > implementation should be done, but got no response from anyone to the > question. I suppose you were the or one of the person(s) I was thinking about. Again, sorry about that. (You'll get a little more info out of band.) > Given the new interface is netlink based, and there already is libnl > in the installer, I don't think it would be a big change package wise, > but it would need netcfg to add support for making netlink calls to > control wifi 7 devices (and optionally wifi 6 devices I suppose). Yeah, the initial brainstorming I've seen a while back seemed rather encouraging. > Certainly the current installer behaviour is confusing since the > driver loads, then it treats it like a wired port which doesn't work > because wifi 7 drivers require using the new interface which netcfg > doesn't support. So you see the network device present but it doesn't > ask about wifi settings it just tries to do dhcp and fails. Yeah, I gathered that from earlier mails, but I suppose it's nice to have a little reminder of the actual confusion, that can be picked up by documentation writers for example. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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