wireless card disabled in network-manager
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Using xenial on Asus EeePC 900
Network manager has worked fine with the wireless card on this machine, until the update of 12 April.
Now the wireless card appears greyed out in the nm-applet interface with no SSIDs visible. Ethernet still works.
wicd works on this machine, but I'd prefer not to have to install that.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: network-manager 1.1.93-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 13 09:55:01 2016
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
# Include files from /etc/network/
source-directory /etc/network/
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev enp3s0 proto static metric 100
192.168.1.0/24 dev enp3s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.67 metric 100
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig'
NetworkManager.
[main]
NetworkingEnab
WirelessEnable
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill'
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH CONNECTION CON-UUID CON-PATH
enp3s0 ethernet connected /org/freedeskto
wlp1s0 ethernet unavailable /org/freedeskto
lo loopback unmanaged /org/freedeskto
nmcli-nm: Error: command ['nmcli', '-f', 'all', 'nm'] failed with exit code 2: Error: Object 'nm' is unknown, try 'nmcli help'.
tags: | added: rls-x-incoming |
tags: | added: nm11issue |
Additional information:
I ran dpkg from the recovery menu. I'm uncertain whether that's caused the following behaviour or not.
On logging in, network manager shows "[wireless card name] disconnected"
On turning off wireless with the function key, network manager shows "[wireless card name] device not managed"
On turning on the wireless using the function key, network manager shows "Enable wifi" box unchecked.
Checking the box allows the machine to connect to the router.
If I turn the machine off, or reboot, I have to go through the last three steps again.