Wifi interface missing on intel NUC

Installation Home Assistant OS
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Hi all,

I was reading the forum for days but I could not find a solution for my issue:
I have installed HA OS on an intel NUC with SSD.
All my wifi devices leave in a dedicated VLAN with specific network access (including my Google assistant and HomeKit devices)
After installing the latest version I have 2 issues:

  1. I cannot find the wifi interface
  2. nmcli command is not present in the OS

I tried adding one USB wifi dongle. i can see it in dmesg logs but the interface cannot be enabled.
Any guidance or advice will be highly appreciated.

Thank you

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Why would you want WiFi on the NUC?

The reason you haven’t seen anything on the forums should be a hint- it’s a bad idea.

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I get this, but I need to connect my NUC to the wifi, otherwise, I cannot add the bridge to homekit via my phone.
being in 2 different networks I cannot make the bridge with HomeKit

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what ?, are your phone and “Bridge” on another network ?

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PS: I could’t help notice you have 20min Read time here, have you tried to read about connecting wifi to “Intel”-NUC ? … and make that work first ?

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yes. My phone is in the wifi Vlan network and my HA is in the Lan VLAN network now

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I could not find anything NUC wifi related

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Intel have some “info” in regards to Wifi on Intel-NUC

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Interresting

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What does this mean? A drawing of your net connections would help. Do you have two separate networks? If yes, then it isn’t going to work.

I know that you can have the WiFi in a Nuc on a different network than the ethernet, it’s Linux, after all. But HAOS is not the Linux we all love. I am just guessing, but having multiple network interfaces is probably something that would have to be integrated into the core.

Why do you need different networks?

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unfortunately i need 2 different networks.

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Possibily a case for a general-purpose base OS?

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fair. I will probably do a reinstall some time soon.
for now it works just fine as is, but with this limitations of not being able to integrate homeKit

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which Bridge are you actually talking about ?, i guess it’s the bridge your devices are paired with, is this a wifi-only bridge/ or a usb-bridge ? … i mean adding a (some)Bridge to the integration Homekit, that’s what you want to achieve right ?
Edit: excuse me if it sounds like a stupid question, but i have never had to have my HA on WiFi, in fact i don’t have wifi_interface in my HA , as i disabled the wifi during VMware-installation, and never had the choice to “Bridge” the WiFi interface, so i only have Ethernet and Bluetooth, the only time i need my phone, is when i paired devices to the “Controller/Hub” maybe that’s what you call Bridge

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My mom would smack me when my answer was “because!”.
Why do you need different networks?

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I separated Wifi users from Lan and Wifi guests via 3 different VLANs
every ssid is associated to a VLAN id same for LAN endpoints

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can be closed. I included the Lan clients in the same VLAN as the wifi ones.