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Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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Hello
My problem is that I can't connect to the wifi extender, the normal wifi is working.
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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-80-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.6.7 wm: muffin 4.6.3 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: HP product: HP Laptop 15-dw0xxx 
  v: Type1ProductConfigId serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: HP model: 85F0 v: 36.28 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde v: F.12 
  date: 07/23/2019 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 40.9 Wh condition: 40.9/40.9 Wh (100%) volts: 12.9/11.3 
  model: Hewlett-Packard PABAS0241231 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8565U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: C L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx 
  bogomips: 31999 
  Speed: 700 MHz min/max: 400/1600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 
  3: 799 4: 799 5: 762 6: 773 7: 779 8: 790 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3ea0 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce MX130] vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:174d 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (WHL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip ID: 8086:9dc8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-80-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 4000 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  chip ID: 10ec:8168 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtl8821ce v: v5.5.2.1_35598.20191029 
  port: 3000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:c821 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IF-ID-1: docker0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 165.54 GiB (34.7%) 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW512G8H size: 476.94 GiB 
  speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter> rev: HPS0 scheme: GPT 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 port: 6060 bus ID: 00:17.0 chip ID: 8086.282a rev: 30 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 182.33 GiB used: 69.35 GiB (38.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 
  ID-2: /boot size: 446.0 MiB used: 208.6 MiB (46.8%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: 29.8 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/linrunner-tlp-focal.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list 
  1: deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x focal main
  2: deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x focal main
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list 
  1: deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable main
Info:
  Processes: 259 Uptime: 38m Memory: 7.66 GiB used: 1.88 GiB (24.5%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38
mokutil --sb-state

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SecureBoot disabled
rfkill list all

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0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
iwconfig

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wlo1      IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Vodafone-A85601263"  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.472 GHz  Access Point: E4:8F:34:A3:F6:25   
          Bit Rate:72.2 Mb/s   Sensitivity:0/0  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=95/100  Signal level=-83 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.
eno1      no wireless extensions.
docker0   no wireless extensions.
lsusb

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Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f3:0c00 Elan Microelectronics Corp. ELAN:ARM-M4
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 13d3:56c9 IMC Networks HP TrueVision HD Camera
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:0976 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Wireless Device
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
lspci

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Coffee Lake HOST and DRAM Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 0c)
00:08.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/v6 / E3-1500 v5 / 6th/7th/8th Gen Core Processor Gaussian Mixture Model
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Thermal Controller (rev 30)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Controller (rev 30)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Shared SRAM (rev 30)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 30)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 30)
00:17.0 RAID bus controller: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] (rev 30)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f0)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f0)
00:1d.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #10 (rev f0)
00:1d.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #13 (rev f0)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 30)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 30)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 30)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SPI Controller (rev 30)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM108M [GeForce MX130] (rev a2)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
04:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Intel Corporation SSD 660P Series (rev 03)
Thanks for any help.
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Re: Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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Please open a terminal window and enter these 2 commands

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wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info

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cat wireless-info.txt | nc termbin.com 9999
After a pause, a termbin.com URL will appear in the Terminal window. Paste that URL into a reply
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Re: Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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That's it:
https://termbin.com/ovcw
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Re: Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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What are you using as a wifi extender? Make and model please.
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Re: Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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Silly me.
The extender is Netgear WN3000RPv3.
I also forgot to tell that with the old router the extender worked with every device. The problem presented with the new router.
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Re: Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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Did you set up a different SSID for the connection to the Netgear WN3000RPv3?
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Re: Imposiible to connect to the wifi extender

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No the SSID is the original one with the append of _EXT.
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