What am I doing wrong?

I am using wifi for internet. I am trying to use Ethernet strictly for the mesa card. I have followed those steps to the connection as well.

The "Method:" needs to be manual and the ipv6 settings should be disabled

Yes. I seen that mistake after I posted, and no it did not fix the proplem.

What does

ip a

report?

jason@debian:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:2e:4c:47:7f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 169.254.5.217/16 brd 169.254.255.255 scope link eth0:avahi
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether b8:03:05:de:bc:64 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.86.36/24 brd 192.168.86.255 scope global dynamic wlan0
valid_lft 86063sec preferred_lft 86063sec
inet6 fe80::ba03:5ff:fede:bc64/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
jason@debian:~$

Right so for some reason your editing setting a static IP address was not applied

Can you or anyone enplane the blue highlighted portion to me?

It looks like JTs configuration tool is installed in your home directory
rather than in a system directory. Your shell needs to know the path
to the configuration tool, since its not in the normal search path for
executables.