Well let's see if I can send an attachment, if not, I can paste the contents of the file into a message. So let's see so far, I reinstalled from a DVD ISO image I put on a USB drive, and it went well like before. Only now, it looks on the USB drive for things I install with apt. So I installed sudo. I installed network-manager. I still don't have WIFI, but I ran tee and its log file is attached. My device is listed as wlp1s0 I put a wpa_supplicant.conf file in /etc/wpa_supplicant, and ran wpa_supplicant with the switches for the .conf file and for wlp1s0 Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>; "john doe" <johndoe65534@mail.com> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2022 4:08 PM Subject: Re: Cannot Connect To WIFI As root first run man tee and see if tee is on your system. If it is, as root try: dhclient -v | tee dhclient.log You may get a connection or maybe not. Either way what dhclient tries to do will be in dhclient.log and that attached to a message will be informative and maybe informative enough for some on the list to help you. I'm not as good as I ought to be with network stuff, first year of a college major starting up is a bad time to major in that study area since we had no qualified instructors to teach networking and hardware concepts and the whole class was given credits for those even though none of us got to study those subjects. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Sat, 3 Sep 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Yes, he wrote: > Before you go down the road of making modifications to files, execute as > root > > dhclient INTERFACENAME > > > and I replied, no interface name. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "john doe" <johndoe65534@mail.com> > To: <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2022 2:57 PM > Subject: Re: Cannot Connect To WIFI > > > On 9/3/2022 9:21 PM, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > > In this case I am, if I can get connected, I may try to find a light > > desktop. > > > > Did you follow the "Frank Carmickle <frank@carmickle.com>"'s > recommendations? > > > Answering to this list is enough, bottom posting is a must, not > stripping to what you are answering to is best appreciated and more > readable > > -- > John Doe > >
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