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If your Wi-Fi interface is not working, for exampleyou might experience the following:

If your Wi-Fi interface is not working, you might experience the following:

There is no **Wi-Fi option** menu in the system menu:

There is no **Wi-Fi** menu in the system menu:

[[!img no-wifi/system_without_wifi.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt=""]]

The interface is disabled because MAC address anonymization failed:

[[!img no-wifi/mac-_spoofing-_disabled.png link="no" alt="Notification about network card being disabclass="screenshot" alt="Notification: MAC address anonymization failed"]]

[[!img no-wifi/mac_spoofing_disabled.png link="no" class="screenshot" alt="Notification: MAC address anonymization failed"]]

In this case, you can disable MAC address anonymization to get your Wi-Fi interface
to work in Tails. Disabling MAC address anonymizationin the Welcome
Screen. Doing so has security implications, so read
carefully our
[[documentation about MAC
address
anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]] before doing so.

In this case, you can disable MAC address anonymization in the Welcome
Screen. Doing so has security implications, so read carefully our
[[documentation about MAC address
anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]].

The following notification appears:

You receive the notification **Connection failed: Activation of network connection failed**.

Activation of network connection failed

To connect to the Internet, you can try to:

Use an Ethernet cable instead of Wi-Fi if possible. Wired interfaces work much more reliably than Wi-Fi in Tails.

Share the Wi-Fi or mobile data connection of your phone using a USB cable. Sharing a connection this way is called *USB tethering*.

[[!img no-wifi/usb-tethering.png link="no" class="svg" alt=""]]

See instructions for:

[iPhones or iPads](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204023)

[iPhones or iPads](https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204023)<br/> Only sharing mobile data works on iPhones and iPads; sharing Wi-Fi does not work.

Only sharing mobile data works on iPhones and iPads; sharing Wi-Fi does not work.

[Android](https://support.google.com/android/answer/9059108?hl=en)

<div class="caution">
<p>Tails cannot hide the information that identifies your phone on the local
network.
If you connect your phone to a:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>A Wi-Fi network, then: the network will knowcan see the MAC
address of your phone. </p>
<p>This has security implications that are discussedwe explain in
our [[documentation on
MAC address anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]].
Some
phones have a feature to hide the real MAC address of the phone.</p></li>
<li><p>A mMobile data network, then
: the network will beis able to know the identifier of
your SIM card (IMSI)
and also the serial number of your phone (IMEI).</p></li>
</ul>
</div>

<div class="caution">
<p>Tails cannot hide the information that identifies your phone on the local
network. If you connect your phone to a:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Wi-Fi network: the network can see the MAC
address of your phone.</p>
<p>This has security implications that we explain in our [[documentation on
MAC address anonymization|first_steps/welcome_screen/mac_spoofing]]. Some
phones have a feature to hide the MAC address of the phone.</p></li>
<li><p>Mobile data network: the network is able to know the identifier of
your SIM card (IMSI) and the serial number of your phone (IMEI).</p></li>
</ul>
</div>

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Buy a USB Wi-Fi adapter that works in Tails: