Linux noob here. Just live booted LMDE 4 and love it, except for the fact that I can't connect to my University's wireless wifi. Problem is the University's networks don't show up in the Network Manager app. Only networks like personal routers show up.
I did some searching online and eventually found this topic: viewtopic.php?t=314977. The only solution to this topic was Sandro Cesar's post near the bottom:
I opened the NetworkManager config file just fine, but am stuck at the [device] line.Sandro Cesar wrote: ⤴Tue Mar 24, 2020 11:51 pm I am a basic Linux user.
Every time I install Debian or LMDE, to make Wi-Fi work, I need to follow these instructions in this text that I copied from somewhere on the internet:
---------------------------
After some searching I have found that this issue is due to the new privacy feature (MAC address randomization) in the new version of NetworkManager causing some wi-fi adaptors to stop working.
Both Debian 9 and Ubuntu 17.04/17.10 are badly affected with this bug, You can read more about this bug in Debian 9 here and Ubuntu 17.04/17.10 here .
Follow below steps to fix this issue in Debian 9 and Ubuntu 17.04/17.10
Edit NetworkManager config file:
sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
Now add below lines to the file:
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
Restart NetworkManager service:
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
Now you will be able connect to wi-fi network.
---------------------------
In the text editor, you must use the keyboard shortcuts to save the edit made.
Ubuntu is derived from Debian, but it already comes with this work done.
To find the name of my wifi adapter device, I connected to my phone's hotspot and installed hwinfo. After running hwinfo, it says my wireless network adapter is
Broadcom BCM43225 802.11b/g/n
. When I replaced [device] with that, added wifi.scan-rank-mac-address=no
, and restarted NetworkManager like it says to, I get:Code: Select all
Job for NetworkManager.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status NetworkManager.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
How can it be this difficult to correctly identify my adapter device? Would appreciate some help here. Or, if I'm going in the wrong direction with this, let me know. I found a couple other posts about issues connecting to University wifi, but none of their solutions worked for me.
See below for my output of
inxi -Fxxxrz
:Code: Select all
System:
Host: mint Kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0
Desktop: Cinnamon 4.4.8 wm: muffin 4.4.2 dm: LightDM 1.26.0
Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: p7-1235 v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter>
Mobo: MSI model: 2AE0 v: 1.0 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: 7.07
date: 04/20/2012
CPU:
Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A8-5500 APU with Radeon HD Graphics
bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Piledriver rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
bogomips: 25552
Speed: 1397 MHz min/max: 1400/3200 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz):
1: 1397 2: 1397 3: 1397 4: 1396
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Trinity [Radeon HD 7560D] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 chip ID: 1002:9904
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1360x768~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.0-8-amd64 LLVM 7.0.1)
v: 4.3 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus ID: 00:14.2 chip ID: 1022:780d
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-8-amd64
Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: alx v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1969:1091
IF: enp1s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM43225 802.11b/g/n driver: bcma-pci-bridge
v: N/A port: e000 bus ID: 04:00.0 chip ID: 14e4:4357
IF-ID-1: wlp4s0b1 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 968.81 GiB used: 38.53 GiB (4.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: A-Data model: SU760 size: 953.87 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter> rev: 4R23 temp: 39 C scheme: MBR
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB model: USB DISK 2.0 size: 14.94 GiB
serial: <filter> rev: PMAP scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 3.61 GiB used: 496.5 MiB (13.4%) fs: overlay source: ERR-102
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 0.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 185 Uptime: 3h 06m Memory: 7.23 GiB used: 929.1 MiB (12.6%)
Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash
v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32