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:
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upgrading non free firmware should work (and yes i added “non-free-firmware” to the souces.list file before upgrading).
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missing non free firmware should be reported in the GUI.
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the package “firmware-iwlwifi” should be included in the package “firmware-linux-nonfree”
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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.
For point 4: Just use “reportbug” on the command-line (no idea if there is a GUI too).
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.
How to contribute upgrade reports: https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-about.en.html#upgrade-reports