My WiFi router went to electronic heaven last night. I replaced it this morning and have spent a day getting the new password into my devices. All but my dual boot netbook have come up ok. On this machine (I'm typing from the Windows half), the connections tab doesn't show up on the network connections menu (see attached images). I get a pop-up at start-up saying that there are networks available and to use the network connections menu to connect so I guess it is in there somewhere, but I can't get to it.
Can anyone suggest how I might figure out where it went?
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can you ping the router ip address from the Linux or windows on that machine?
You may also have to change the channel being used by the router for this machine to see it. Some newer routers use channels beyond the range of older wireless cards.
can you ping the router ip address from the Linux or windows on that machine?
Nope and yep. The Linux side says network unreachable.
You may also have to change the channel being used by the router for this machine to see it. Some newer routers use channels beyond the range of older wireless cards.
It says it is using channel 6. Is that standard? My other netbook is older and has no difficulty connecting.
Thanks for helping me look. I hope to find a simple solution somewhere in the network settings, but I need a guide.
Which assumes that I have a net connection so that I can reply to the forum post using the code tool. But the point of the post is that I don't have a network connection. So you got the result of
which I could move to the Windows side of the machine to post.
I am sorry if the format is inconvenient. That was unexpected, but I have no idea what needs to be changed (other than obtaining a wifi connection) to make it as you like it.
What should I be looking for in that inconveniently formatted stream of text that would give me a clue to the network problem?
You could check what channel the router is using, put it on 1, 6, or 11 rather than auto. Check results for rfkill list as what I can read of the inxi shows the wifi is down
Of its own volition, my netbook showed me a pop-up to connect to my phone as a WiFi hotspot. My phone wasn't sharing, so this was a surprise, but I turned on the WiFi hotspot to see what would happen.
My phone told me that it had connected, but there was no indicator on the netbook panel. I opened the panel properties and added an indicator. This then displayed the WiFi status. On the dropdown menu from that indicator, my home WiFi was shown as available, and I was then able to connect to it (I'm using it now). I went through several cycles of restarting to check that it always connected.
So I now have a WiFi connection, but no idea where it went or why it came back.
The Network settings dialog still doesn't appear as shown in the help, maybe there is a setting that needs a tweak.
Thanks for the tip on the inxi command options @JeremyB, and thanks for helping me through, @JerryF. I'll mark this solved for want of a better descriptor.