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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?

Well lads
This post has been sitting here a while. Any Ideas?

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

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?

It could be the wifi power management, the first command in the link will stop that after rebooting

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

While connected to the wifi internet, encryption off do Then turn encryption on, try to connect, then do Disable encryption, connect and do Post URL from terminal

Thanks Jeremy

The URL
http://termbin.com/pjfg

See if you can connect to encrypted network after disabling UFW

I tried that no good still behaves the same

Go into Network Manager settings for the connection and set IPv6 to ignore/off

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?

You could do 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

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?

Any ideas?

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

The thing is it connected to it before and now the Ethernet has stopped working
Eth0 is missing

You didn't have eth0, you had enp1s0 for ethernet interface. Did you happen to do a kernel update?

I did through the update manager the latest 4.15.0-38
Is there a known bug?

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