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Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Lads

Hope your all good.

I am having and issue connecting to secured WiFi networks in Mint 18.3 XFCE .
I was running the latest kernel 4.15.0-34 I downgraded to 4.15.0-20 no change.
I can connect to open networks no issue.
Any Ideas?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Well lads
This post has been sitting here a while. Any Ideas?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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See https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php ... st13614520 and make changes. I know Atheros wifi devices do not like WEP/TKIP encryption
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Thanks for the reply.

I don't think that's the issue with that the 2 networks I tried were WP2/WPA and it seems to time out rather then connect.
I disabled the security and it connected no issue.
Could it be a user group I need to be added to, if so which?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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It could be the wifi power management, the first command in the link will stop that after rebooting
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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I've tried that editing that file but all that's in it are the lines

/etc/NetworkManager.conf

'[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile,ofono
dns=dnsmasq

[ifupdown]
managed=false'

the WiFi power save settings are in another file
and that's just set to

'[connection]
wifi.powersave = 3'


I tried changing that value to 2/1 but no change
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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While connected to the wifi internet, encryption off do

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wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info
Then turn encryption on, try to connect, then do

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./wireless-info
Disable encryption, connect and do

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cat wireless-info.txt | nc termbin.com 9999
Post URL from terminal
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Thanks Jeremy

The URL
http://termbin.com/pjfg
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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See if you can connect to encrypted network after disabling UFW
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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I tried that no good still behaves the same
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Go into Network Manager settings for the connection and set IPv6 to ignore/off
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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That worked,

But I can only do this for networks I previously connected to that were open
I can disable IpV6 ON WIFI connections totally?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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You could do

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gksu xed /etc/default/grub
Scroll down to the line that starts with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= and add ipv6.disable=1 inside the quotes

Most users would likely have GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash ipv6.disable=1"
Save, exit the editor and do

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sudo update-grub
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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I did what you advised but there is still some networks it won't connect to
one is a Cisco modem transmitting 2.4GHZ and 5GHZ on the same SSID.

Any other suggestions?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Any ideas?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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If the Cisco transmitting on 2.4 and 5 GHz is on AC mode, the wireless card you have may not be able to connect as it isn't capable
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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The thing is it connected to it before and now the Ethernet has stopped working
Eth0 is missing
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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You didn't have eth0, you had enp1s0 for ethernet interface. Did you happen to do a kernel update?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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I did through the update manager the latest 4.15.0-38
Is there a known bug?
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Re: Linux Mint 18.3 wifi issue

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Post results for

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dpkg -l | egrep 'linux-image|linux-modules'
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