Please help with WiFi

[ceebee90Member]

I know this is a common topic and believe me I’ve tried the suggestions on this board about how to configure wireless, but I am at a loss. I’m using an old dell xps laptop and booting from the latest devel version from a usb with persistence. Here’s what i’ve done so far:

iwconfig – this listed eth1 as wireless
iwlist eth1 – this detected my hidden wifi network

so at least i know the wireless in the laptop is working. I’ve configured /etc/network via nano with values appropriate values WLAN, eth1, ESSID, placed true because essid is hidden, PSK (for WPA2) and the passkey. Others I left out blank to use DHCP. made sure that wait for slow device is not commented out and set to true. I saved, rebooted. I looked to see if the file still has my edits and it does. But still no connection to the Internet.

After some trawling in here I tried some suggestions:

systemctl stop connman.service
ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 essid “MyESSID” ap “xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx” key restricted:mypassword

this worked once. I don’t know how or why, but that one time was the only time I connected to the net. after a reboot, back to zero. I tried doing that again, I noticed that by iwconfig eth1 the essid and ap were changed but somehow my passkey is 00:00:00, etc. that couldn’t be right.

I would appreciate help/thoughts. Thank you in advance.

• This topic was modified 2 months, 2 weeks ago by ceebee90.

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