#1 2017-04-27 11:43:18

schwim

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From: Coastal VA, Murica

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Ubu: OS no longer utilizes wireless connection

Hi there guys!

I pulled out the laptop this morning to work on since there was a thunderstorm but it wouldn't connect to a wireless network.  When I right-click the wireless icon, "Enable Networking" is checked but "Enable Wireless" is not.  Checking it does not cause any change and on reboot, it's unchecked again.

This is a dual-boot machine so I checked the windows install and it's acting funny as well. Last week, I installed PureVPN on the Windows side and although it worked when I installed it, now my internet shows "connected, no internet" and the VPN app is incapable of connecting.

I'm wondering what I've done to muck up the works and how I should troubleshoot it.  I remember long ago(years) that I found that there was something of a hardware switch that would allow me to screw something up on the Windows side that would keep the linux side from being able to use the wireless connection and I think something like that is happening here but I don't know how to troubleshoot this.

Should I uninstall the VPN app first and try to get wireless back to a point at which it works or is there a troubleshooting process I can go through with it installed?

Thanks for your time!

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Ubu: OS no longer utilizes wireless connection

is there a troubleshooting process I can go through with it installed?

You could load up the BunsenLabs ISO image and select the "live session" from the GRUB menu and test your connection from there.

The output of this command would probably be useful:

rfkill list

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KrunchTime

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Re: Ubu: OS no longer utilizes wireless connection

fn-F2 on my ASUS UX303LA will disable/enable wireless.  Restarting the network manager service usually resolves such issues for me.  Courtesy of a reply by HoaS to an issue I experience under Debian Unstable on my desktop:

sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service

Another thing to check, if you're using network manager to manage networking on your rig, is to make sure the following lines in /etc/networks/interfaces are commented out:

# allow-hotplug eth0
# iface eth0 inet dhcp

^ Wow, have we always had the ability to colorize text and I just never noticed it until now?!   

Last edited by KrunchTime (2017-05-25 07:31:00)