Bullseye->Bookworm upgrade kills WiFi config?

Nov 08, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1 Replies
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I've been migrating some of my Raspberry Pis from Bullseye to Bookworm recently. The wired hosts come through OK (even an ancient Raspberry Pi B that I turned into a poor man's JetDirect a while back), but I've had two hosts connected by WiFi drop off the network during the apt-get distupgrade. One is a GPS-disciplined NTP server on a RPi 3B+ that I got working again by plugging in a monitor and keyboard long enough to reconfigure WiFi.



Another host that's gone catatonic is a CM4 running OctoPrint on one of my



3D printers. That one's on a Waveshare CM4-NANO-A that brings out USB and GPIO, but not HDMI. I'll have to move that onto a different adapter board that brings out HDMI as well as USB, which is on order...but having to do this is a bit annoying. The printer will work without it (its controller board has a MicroSD slot and can print from that), but it's not as convenient as telling PrusaSlicer to send a file to OctoPrint. (First-world problem? :) )

Has anyone else noticed this issue when upgrading to Bookworm on a WiFi-connected Raspberry Pi?


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BookWorm ... and the "worm" bit comes to mind more and more often ... uses networkmanager to work the ethernet/wifi, The 'old' way doesn't work right anymore ... though someone here DID find a slightly odd tweak to kinda make it work.

Just the other day I posted some TEMPLATES for /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections. IF you are doing a 'headless', non-GUI, 'lite', install then you won't have GUI tools to set this stuff. You use 'nmcli add con' to create a useless entry, then copy/paste my templates over that and do the few customization measures.

If you are using a GUI, on Pi4 at least, you have to MANUALLY install a NetworkManager tweaker like the Gnome version. Search "network manager" in synaptic. Oh, you have to run it from a terminal as root/sudo.

I'm afraid Deb is falling into the Cannonical "Lets Change Everything For No Good Reason" philosophy.

There are systemd rebel distros - let's see some "Pure Deb" rebel distros where everything vital works the good, super-well-documented, way - a Devuian branch perhaps.

The proliferation of Linux distros was initially a good thing ... but it's getting STUPID now. Every distro does it differently, their idea of "better", and it's almost NEVER "better".

I'm seriously thinking of flushing 'The Worm' entirely and going back to BullsEye/Buster. Yea, the security updates will eventually go away - but set the firewall stuff smartly and you'll probably be good for a decade.

Oh, Pi4 ... discovered today that OpenCV cannot place display windows if you are using Wayland ... they all just pile-up on top of each other. Ain't gonna re-write half the OS just to make it work right.

Flush Wayland too ....... it'll NEVER be ready for prime time.

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