I forgot one thing, but this shouldn't impact it if your essid name showed up. If you're in America wi-fi needs to be running on 5.0 band and not 2.4 band now. That was an F.C.C. ruling.
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, dhof...@att.net wrote: > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:03:18 > From: dhof...@att.net > To: Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> > Cc: Debian Accessibility <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Debian Buster and wifi > > From within the Mate terminal I entered: > nmtui > which opened a window which gave me 4 options, the second one to > activate a connection which I pressed. > This opened a window which said > Wired connection 1 > and below that was the name of my ESSID name > I chose my ESSID > and it said connecting > a few seconds later it said > could not activate connection > activation failed. The wifi > network could not be found. > > > --
