Wi-Fi spat out an error with the “daemon.notice.wpa_supplicant”
wlan0 Trying to associate with SSID
cannot send using ws: not connected. waiting...
Can you confirm with your IT people that the proxy uses NTLM for authentication?
I am the IT people 
We’re using Kerberos authentication.
EDIT: it does recognise the .conf file though as it tells me the SSID I put in there.