Hello Glenn, > On Sep 3, 2022, at 11:36 AM, K0LNY_Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > I must be missing something, maybe someone here can assist. > I put my working wpa_supplicant file in /etc/wpa_supplicant folder. > My wireless according to ip is called wlp1s0 > I don't get the first part of the below, but I ran the command > wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp1s0 -c > and it seemed successful, but it still says network is unreachable when I > ping stuff. > Here's some of what I found on-line: > > How to use wpa_supplicant > The wpa_supplicant tool can configure network interfaces and connect to > wireless networks. It is intended to run as a daemon and other command to > connect > it. A basic configuration is as follows. > ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel > update_config=1 > On the first line GROUP=wheel allows any user in the wheel group to connect > to an manage wireless connections. To limit wireless connectivity to the > root > account remove this. This file should be created as root and saved in the > /etc/wpa_supplicant directory. The file may be called anything but for this > example > it is called example.conf. Once this file is created wpa_supplicant may be > started by running the following command as root. > wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp3s0b1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/example.conf > Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant > The -B option runs the daemon in the background. The -i option specifies the > network interface to use. This is the interface name discovered using the > ip command. The -c options specifies the configuration file to be used.
It sounds to me like the ip configuration, static or using dhcp/slaac isn't happening. Do you know what network configuration type you are using? A few of the options include standard debian /etc/network/interfaces systemd-networkd network-manager Before you go down the road of making modifications to files, execute as root dhclient INTERFACENAME Hopefully you'll get an address. Best, --FC > Glenn >
