I would really like to know how/when Debian uninstalled wpasupplicant on this box, and how I didn't notice. This is up there with when Debian installed exim4 without me noticing and proceeded to silently swallow all of my outgoing mail for a week. But I love Debian.
@chrisjrn And I learned that my junk ISP router won't allow me to even temporarily turn off encryption. So much kindness.
@johns /var/log/apt/ might tell you?
@johns it's OK, not connecting to wifi is a kindness.