Raspberry Pi 3 WiFi won't connect

[kingneil]

I have a WiFi hotspot literally right next to me in the room.

I connected my Android phone to it.

But my Raspberry Pi just will not even show it, let alone connect.

When I hover over the network icon in Raspbian, it says

"eth0: Link is down
wlan0: Not associated"

When I click it, it says:

"No wireless interfaces found"

What do I do...?

[kingneil]

Original poster here.

If I run

sudo iwlist wlan0 scan

it actually shows all of the WiFi devices nearby.

But it just doesn't show up in the network icon app user interface.

Very odd.

How do I get it to show up in the user interface..?

[kingneil]

ok.... i solved it

you go to

sudo su
nano /etc/network-interfaces

for some reason.... my network interfaces were set up like this:

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

when in fact, the wpa_supplicant file is stored here:

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

how incredibly odd

so now i've updated the file and rebooted the computer and now it works

Just incredibly strange stuff.... No idea why it would point to the wrong file.