I haven’t personally used Debian with WiFi like this. I’ve used Debian and Debian based distributions on laptops and I’ve used those to connect to WiFi, but I’m not a full time Linux user.
Since I work on the IT/support side, most of my support tools only run correctly on Windows. Sure, there are client/user side tools for Linux/Mac/Windows, but the technician tools are frequently Windows centric; so most of my stuff is installed with some flavour of Windows.
Most of my knowledge is out of date, but I seem to recall that you can save settings in the wpa supplicant for the network, and set the network manager to default to that wifi connection (ESSID/BSS) when it is in range/available. This was all done in config files, but I’m equally aware that a lot of the Linux networking subsystems have been pretty dramatically changed in the past ~5 years, so I doubt the settings I would have used for this, still exist.
I’m sorry I couldn’t be more help here. I just don’t have the long term experience with the issue.
I have an old laptop with Debian installed, and I can fire that up for testing and play with it… What version of Debian are you running? I want to make sure the version I have installed isn’t so out of date that the testing I do won’t help at all.
That system is just sitting on a shelf doing nothing, so it won’t be a problem to pull it out and tinker with it for a while. I use a lot of Debian based stuff for servers, usually I’m using rasbian or Ubuntu, but AFAIK they’re all very similar.
I haven’t personally used Debian with WiFi like this. I’ve used Debian and Debian based distributions on laptops and I’ve used those to connect to WiFi, but I’m not a full time Linux user.
Since I work on the IT/support side, most of my support tools only run correctly on Windows. Sure, there are client/user side tools for Linux/Mac/Windows, but the technician tools are frequently Windows centric; so most of my stuff is installed with some flavour of Windows.
Most of my knowledge is out of date, but I seem to recall that you can save settings in the wpa supplicant for the network, and set the network manager to default to that wifi connection (ESSID/BSS) when it is in range/available. This was all done in config files, but I’m equally aware that a lot of the Linux networking subsystems have been pretty dramatically changed in the past ~5 years, so I doubt the settings I would have used for this, still exist.
I’m sorry I couldn’t be more help here. I just don’t have the long term experience with the issue.
I have an old laptop with Debian installed, and I can fire that up for testing and play with it… What version of Debian are you running? I want to make sure the version I have installed isn’t so out of date that the testing I do won’t help at all.
That system is just sitting on a shelf doing nothing, so it won’t be a problem to pull it out and tinker with it for a while. I use a lot of Debian based stuff for servers, usually I’m using rasbian or Ubuntu, but AFAIK they’re all very similar.