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I've set up a machine with bionicpup32-8.0-uefi.iso for a 13 year old family member to learn Linux.
I'm trying to make it easy to use so he can learn Linux and Python.
@d-pupp assisted in my prior question, clarifying that DHCP and Static IP cannot exist at the same time on two interfaces. So I set up the second computer (a Raspberry Pi) with DHCP also, so the only interface on Bionic is WLAN using DHCP.

Now I have discovered that the Network Configurations do not persist between boots. Every time Bionic boots, there is no Network connection, and the Internet Connection Wizard has to be run again.

At the end of the Internet Connection Wizard, it shows a dialog that says NETWORK CONFIGURATION OF wlp0 SUCCESSFUL! do you want to save this configuration? I click Yes. Then the Configure Network Interface dialog shows again, and I click Done. Then I see "you have finished running Dougal's Network Wizard". I click Set as Default.Then is pops up "Dougal's Network Wizard now set as default". I click OK.

The next time the system boots, the WLAN is not connected. Running the Internet Connection Wizard will cause it to connect, but I think it is supposed to remember the profile and reconnect automatically.
Any suggestions?

When you did the first shutdown did you make a save file or save folder?
If yes.
When booting do you see information that the save is being loaded?

Are any other settings or configurations you did, being used, when you boot to the working desktop?

Here are the steps for using Network Wizard.
Maybe you are not doing one of them.

Make sure you do see both of the last two selections.

Network Wizard wireless connection steps.

1. Select Network Wizard
2. Select wlan0 (your network card may have a different description)
3. Select Wireless in the Configure wireless network box.
4. Select Scan and your ESSID (WIFI router) should come up.
5. Select your ESSID and OK
6. Give a name to your profile. It should already be what you selected in step 5.
7. Encryption. Most people use WPA/TKIP - select it or WPA2.
8. A box will open for you to write the WPA password. It is called a Shared Key. Enter the password.
9. Leave the other boxes as they are. Rarely do these need adjustment.
9. Select Save
10. Select Use This Profile
11. A box will appear showing Puppy trying to connect
12. A box will come up “REPORT ON TEST 0f wlan0CONNECTION”
13. Select Auto DHCP in the Configure interface box and it will go through a handshake routine. and declare itself successful
14. Select done

Select to use this setup on reboot.
Select to use this as default.