Connect wifi adapter to internet

[mmcdonald3009]

There is good support in Debian 12 for wifi adapters - even non free drivers.
I have an rather old laptop running Atheros AR9485 wifi I installed UCS on for testing.

Here is how to wifi with wpa_supplicant:

Enable Wifi With wpa_supplicant - Solution

For this exercise during installation at very beginning select: “Manual Network” I set a static ip, and provided credentials. This will write your wifi config as the default in /etc/network/interfaces Further into installation when it progresses to asking if you want to create a new UCS Domain, or Join a domain, etc… ⬦ Press Ctrl + Alt +5 or whatever your key bindings are for dropping to tty. ⬦ Login as root using the password you supplied for your user earlier. **Type this at # prompt ** …