Wifi won't connect in debian

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From	Simon Wooding <glasfryn27@gmail.com>
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Subject	Wifi won't connect in debian
Date	Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:40:01 +0200
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Hello,

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad which I used to run Windows on. A few days ago I
installed Debian 10.6.0 (first as dual-boot to make sure I could transfer
everything, later deleting the Windows partition). I had to install
non-free firmware to get wifi working during install, but I found the
required drivers on Intel's website and everything went smoothly from
there. Fast forward three days problem free and when I booted up this
morning I had lost some of the graphical features of my desktop environment
MATE (the top/bottom panels, my chosen theme, and a number of keyboard
shortcuts no longer worked) and I couldn't connect to the internet. I don't
know if these problems are related, but I can't fix the desktop environment
without internet access so it's somewhat moot.
Clarifications on the internet problems:
It's not my provider, that's been working fine all day on other devices
It's not a hardware fault; while I was trying out stuff to fix it I tried
using my boot-repair live usb to see if the hard drive was the problem, and
while in that mode connecting to the internet was easy and worked fine.
I'm not sure what difference using ethernet would make as I can't figure
out how to connect using that either but I do have access to an ethernet
port if needed.
I have tried a number of suggested solutions online, but none have worked
and I couldn't try a lot of them because they required packages I didn't
have and couldn't install offline.

I need wifi access back fairly promptly as I am a university student
studying remotely, so any help is thoroughly appreciated.

Thanks,
Simon

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Wifi won't connect in debian Simon Wooding <glasfryn27@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 20:40 +0200
  Re: Wifi won't connect in debian Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-22 21:20 +0200
  Re: Wifi won't connect in debian Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2020-10-23 01:00 +0200

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