The Xorg and noX flavors come with a new tool to connect your wireless devices. Intels iNet wireless daemon (iwd) sends WPA-Supplicant into well-earned retirement. Ten times smaller and a lot faster, iwd will be the successor!

If you want to use wpa_supplicant instead of iwd follow the steps below.

First stop and mask iwd.service, stop NetworkManager.service, rename /etc/NetworkManger/conf.d/nm.conf, unmask and start wpa_supplicant.service, start NetworkManager.service again:

        systemctl stop iwd.service
        systemctl mask iwd.service
        systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
        mv /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/nm.conf~
        systemctl unmask wpa_supplicant.service
        systemctl enable --now wpa_supplicant.service
        systemctl start NetworkManager.service
        

Now you should be able to connect you wireless device with wpa_supplicant.

Installtion

Please read all!

To start the graphical installer use sudo calamares or start the terminal installer sudo cli-installer.

The following non-free and contrib packages are installed by default:

Non-free

• amd64-microcode - Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
• firmware-amd-graphics - Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
• firmware-atheros - Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
• firmware-bnx2 - Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
• firmware-bnx2x - Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
• firmware-brcm80211 - Binary firmware for Broadcom 802.11 wireless card
• firmware-crystalhd - Crystal HD Video Decoder (firmware)
• firmware-intelwimax - Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
• firmware-iwlwifi - Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
• firmware-libertas - Binary firmware for Marvell Libertas 8xxx wireless card
• firmware-linux-nonfree - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
• firmware-misc-nonfree - Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
• firmware-myricom - Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
• firmware-netxen - Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000)
• firmware-qlogic - Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
• firmware-realtek - Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
• firmware-ti-connectivity - Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wireless network
• firmware-zd1211 - binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
• intel-microcode - Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

Contrib

• b43-fwcutter - utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
• firmware-b43-installer - firmware installer for the b43 driver
• firmware-b43legacy-installer - firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
• iucode-tool - Intel processor microcode

Return to non-free

Right now the installer does not offer an opt-out for packages that does not comply with DFSG, the Debian Free Software Guidelines. That means that non-free packages like unfree firmware will be installed by default on the system. The command vrms will list these packages for you. You can remove not wanted packages manually or remove them all by issuing apt purge $(vrms -s) before or after installation. Else our script remove-nonfree can do that for you.

Installation hints and pitfalls

If you want to reuse your existing home (or any other data) partition, it would be wise to do so after installation and not in the Calamares Installer.

Encyption setups like LUKS and others are not yet supported by the Installer Framework, you should prepare your partition setup beforehand and might better use the cli-installer in a terminal.

Credits for siduction 2021.1.0

Core Team

Alf Gaida (agaida)
Axel Beu (ab)
Torsten Wohlfarth (towo)
Hendrik Lehmbruch (hendrikL)
Ferdinand Thommes (devil)

Code, ideas and support:

der_bud
Markus Meyer (coruja)
akli (for his work on getting the manual back in shape)

Thank you!

We want to thank all testers and all the people giving us support in any possible way. This is also your achievement. We also want to thank Debian, as we are standing on the shoulders of giants.
And now enjoy!

On behalf of the siduction team: