Can't connect to Wi-Fi
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 2:21 pm
Hello everyone,
I'm new to all of this, and I've already run into a lot of troubles, so please bear with me.
I just got a school laptop that's running Linux Mint 19. I tried to connect it to my home wifi, so I went to the little bar next to the time and date, chose my internet etc etc. First problem: it won't connect. It keeps asking me for the password time and time again after a few seconds of loading.
Second problem: Being the smart-ass I am trying to mess around with it, I unticked the little box that was called "enable wifi" I think (the one that appears with "enable networking" and "VPN Connections") and now the little box doesn't appear anymore which means I can't even see which wifi thingies are available around me.
I looked it up on Google and tried to follow some stuff about manually setting up the wifi connection to no luck.
I've been going back and forth for the past 4 hours. Can someone just guide this idiot through this? Also, because I'm typing this on my phone (since I don't have internet on the computer) I can't really copy and paste the result of the inxi -Fxz command so I guess the only way to do this is for you guys to tell what info you need and I'll write it as we go... I hope that's not too troublesome.
Thank you very much in advance.
I'm new to all of this, and I've already run into a lot of troubles, so please bear with me.
I just got a school laptop that's running Linux Mint 19. I tried to connect it to my home wifi, so I went to the little bar next to the time and date, chose my internet etc etc. First problem: it won't connect. It keeps asking me for the password time and time again after a few seconds of loading.
Second problem: Being the smart-ass I am trying to mess around with it, I unticked the little box that was called "enable wifi" I think (the one that appears with "enable networking" and "VPN Connections") and now the little box doesn't appear anymore which means I can't even see which wifi thingies are available around me.
I looked it up on Google and tried to follow some stuff about manually setting up the wifi connection to no luck.
I've been going back and forth for the past 4 hours. Can someone just guide this idiot through this? Also, because I'm typing this on my phone (since I don't have internet on the computer) I can't really copy and paste the result of the inxi -Fxz command so I guess the only way to do this is for you guys to tell what info you need and I'll write it as we go... I hope that's not too troublesome.
Thank you very much in advance.