Yesterday I was having some issues with NetworkManager in Gnome 3.30. What was happening is that if I used to NetworkManager to configure the connection I was getting errors like the example below. Even though it is stating the the ssid was not found it is correct. So as an attempt to eliminate testing as a problem, I quickly installed stable into a separate partition (separate /boot, same /home) which resulted in the same issue. In both cases the firmware was installed.
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Oct 6 14:52:49 debian NetworkManager[571]: <info> [1538862769.1114] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): supplicant interface state: authenticating -> disconnected
Oct 6 14:52:49 debian NetworkManager[571]: <info> [1538862769.6119] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): supplicant interface state: disconnected -> scanning
Oct 6 14:52:52 debian NetworkManager[571]: <warn> [1538862772.4955] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): Activation: (wifi) association took too long, failing activation
Oct 6 14:52:52 debian NetworkManager[571]: <info> [1538862772.4955] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): state change: config -> failed (reason 'ssid-not-found') [50 120 53]
Oct 6 14:52:52 debian NetworkManager[571]: <warn> [1538862772.4959] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): Activation: failed for connection 'TELUS2084-5G'
Oct 6 14:52:52 debian NetworkManager[571]: <info> [1538862772.5278] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): supplicant interface state: scanning -> disconnected
Oct 6 14:52:52 debian NetworkManager[571]: <info> [1538862772.5368] device (wlx60a44cec22f5): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
Oct 6 14:52:52 debian kernel: [ 84.044513] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlx60a44cec22f5: link is not ready
I have since configured stable with a similar setup to what I was using in Testing + firefox from Sid. I would appear that for my use I don't really need to be running testing and getting piles of updates. I may just stay on stretch now and enjoy the calmer update frequency. Coming back to debian from Fedora I went to testing initially but Stable + some selected backports seems to be working just fine for now. That and I don't really want to mess with something thats working right now.