New start up no wifi from new node

AllStarLink
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It reports /boot/wpa does not exist

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I don't know what you mean with all the rapid posting. If the imager isn't writing your WiFi information, I wonder why. That isn't something I've seen before. We've seen odd flukes on Macs but that's about it. I was asking about the wpa_supplicant.conf file to see if it's present but unparsable somehow or if it's simply not there.

From the console, does it start to work if you do:

nmcli device wifi connect MYNETWORK password MYPASSWORD

Obviously replacing MYNETWORK and MYPASSWORD.

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Wpa_supplicant.conf doesnt exist

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No I tried that earlier. I THOUGHT that would for sure do it. But let me try again.

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I tried it got error No network with SSID 'AC0Y' found

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Im sorry I need to give my gf a shot. Will be back.

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Does nmcli dev wifi show the network as being in the air? You should see something like this:

root@node460181:/home/jdm# nmcli dev wifi
IN-USE  BSSID              SSID                        MODE   CHAN  RATE       >
        0E:96:E6:C9:B9:3A  DIRECT-3a-HP M180 LaserJet  Infra  36    270 Mbit/s >
        44:D9:E7:FD:08:0F  MFamilyClients              Infra  6     195 Mbit/s >
        4A:D9:E7:FD:08:0F  MFamilyGuests               Infra  6     195 Mbit/s >
        60:22:32:AD:4C:2E  MFamilyClients              Infra  1     130 Mbit/s >
        4E:D9:E7:FD:08:0F  --                          Infra  6     195 Mbit/s >
        66:22:32:AD:4C:2E  MFamilyGuests               Infra  1     130 Mbit/s >
        6A:22:32:AD:4C:2E  --                          Infra  1     130 Mbit/s >
        66:22:32:AD:4C:2F  MFamilyGuests               Infra  36    540 Mbit/s >
        6A:22:32:AD:4C:2F  --                          Infra  36    540 Mbit/s >
*       60:22:32:AD:4C:2F  MFamilyClients              Infra  36    540 Mbit/s >
        44:D9:E7:FE:08:0F  MFamilyClients              Infra  52    270 Mbit/s >
        4A:D9:E7:FE:08:0F  MFamilyGuests               Infra  52    270 Mbit/s >
        4E:D9:E7:FE:08:0F  --                          Infra  52    270 Mbit/s >

Except obviously "AC0Y" instead of my networks. Your SSID isn't hidden is it?

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No not hidden. And I dont get anything like that . I GET
IN-USE BASSID SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY.
I DID IT TWICE TO MAKE SURE

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Do you have any thoughts as to what is going on?

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I wonder if your Pi WiFi chip is dead or something. I've had a few Pi 3B's WiFi die on my over time. However your Pi isn't seeing what you tried to configure. You aren't getting any errors at login about "WiFi is disabled by rfkill. Set region" or something are you?

You can try adding an SSID you can't see like this:

nmcli conn add type wifi con-name MYNETWORK ifname wlan0 ssid MYPASSWORD
nmcli conn modify MYNETWORK wifi-sec.key-mgmt wpa-psk wifi-sec.psk MYPASSWORD

But if your SSID isn't hidden, that's not likely to fix anything. But your problem is between your Pi and your network.

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If you run rfkill is your device listed as "unblocked"?

# rfkill
ID TYPE DEVICE      SOFT      HARD
 0 wlan phy0   unblocked unblocked
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To answer your question I have tried 3 boards, 1 known good and 2 new boards they all do the same thing. And I can burn a lynux sd card on the same imager and it doesnt come up with wifi but I can turn it on and it gets an ip address and works as normal. I think I have put those to bed. I can take the known good node and swap the newly burned sd card into it and no wifi, also I can take the good card from that board and it works on the others. Those troubleshooting steps have been taken.

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I have also tried burning a sd card from a completely different windows 10 computer and I get exactly the same results.
I know there is nothing magical about all of this but it's kicking my butt. Ok I will try the last thing that you sent.

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No responce to # rfkill

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What do "no response" mean? You mean it doesn't print anything?

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Okay i got a response after sending rfkill with out the #.
After sending just rfkill I got back what you sent except the first "unblocked" is blocked then unblocked for the second
0 wlan phy0 blocked unblocked

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The # was just a copy from the command prompt for root. Do rfkill unblock all and then run raspi-config and set your country. It looks like you're hitting the bug that Allan already mentioned in the other thread with Pi Imager 1.9.4.

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I received a hash mark before rfkill "# rfkill " and I got no responce until i typed in " rfkill" that is when I got back the responce that you sent except for the one"blocked" before unblocked.

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So "soft" is blocked and hard is unblocked. But what does it mean? And once blocked does it stay blocked untill manually unblocked?

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