When I moved into my dorm I decided to connect my laptop directly to the wall and create a hotspot instead of buying a router, because the internet on my laptop was much faster that way. However, every time I reboot my computer (such as to switch back to Windows to play certain games), and boot linux again I find that when I create a wireless hotspot, the connected devices cannot access the internet. They can connect to the network, and communicate with my laptop directly. But when I try to go to a website it gives me a T-rex saying there's no internet connection. I'm able to fix the problem by going into network connections, deleting the hotspot, and then re creating it by creating a new hotspot. However, it didn't used to do this, and it is a little inconvenient to do this every time I have to start Linux.
I'm running Linux mint cinammon, and this is the output of the -inxi -Fxz command as one of the pinned topics suggested.
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System: Host: kglin Kernel: 4.10.0-37-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.4.6 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya
Machine: System: Dell (portable) product: Inspiron 15 7000 Gaming
Mobo: Dell model: 0TXG2N v: A00
Bios: Dell v: 01.00.05 date: 03/01/2017
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i5-7300HQ (-MCP-) cache: 6144 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 19968
clock speeds: max: 3500 MHz 1: 800 MHz 2: 800 MHz 3: 800 MHz
4: 800 MHz
Graphics: Card-1: Intel Device 591b bus-ID: 00:02.0
Card-2: NVIDIA Device 1c8d bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.05hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 1050/PCIe/SSE2
GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.90 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel Device a171 driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.10.0-37-generic
Network: Card-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: enp2s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Card-2: Intel Wireless 3165 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1000.2GB (25.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: TOSHIBA_MQ02ABD1 size: 1000.2GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 577G used: 233G (43%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.45GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda8
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:51C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 252 Uptime: 21:56 Memory: 3657.0/7848.0MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35