I've been using Mint 18.1 successfully with Wifi for a while. Today I had to disable the wifi, I thought temporarily, using the toggle in the Network Manager Applet. After later rebooting I find that the toggle has disappeared.
This basically means I can't connect wirelessly because I can't activate the wifi. My computer is a Lenovo Yoga 300. The "airplane" mode button appears to have no effect.
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Hi
@JeremyB this looks really interesting, thank you.
Could you explain a little about what these commands do please? I have looked them up though they seem rather abstract to me. I am keen to have a solution that I understand kept ready in my "useful commands" crib sheet kept locally on the computer.
As an aside, the problem went away last night as the wifi connection reappeared just as mysteriously as it had disappeared. Its not the first time I have had this problem though this time, it lasting 18 hours rather than just ten minutes, is the longest nightmare its given me.
@lsemmens Yes, I should have been clearer, I had already search long throughout the system settings.
I'm a noob and this is one of my less than dangerous drive-bys <--my disclaimer;)
about what the commands do that JeremyB advised, I see it toggling wireless enabled false to wireless enabled true in the file found in /var/lib/...
then you tell systemctl to restart nm service so that it recognizes this change. Perhaps not be helpful in explaining it in all detail but at first glance that is what I see.
Why I really wanted to respond here was to vouchsafe JeremyB, not just because he is a forum moderator, with near 10k posts in 4 yrs, but he's brilliant with such issues! I want to say wifi related but it is much more than that as can be seen in his numerous responses these forums. Check his signature link, run that for a peek at what level he is comfortable operating at (and knowing how to get near every piece of info he needs via one well written script).
Anyways, I know when I see JeremyB on such an issue I'll see [solved] added as long as one seeking help sticks with it to the inevitable end. otherwise want to say- good luck!
Mildly_odd wrote: ⤴Wed Nov 14, 2018 8:37 pm
Hi
@JeremyB this looks really interesting, thank you.
Could you explain a little about what these commands do please? I have looked them up though they seem rather abstract to me. I am keen to have a solution that I understand kept ready in my "useful commands" crib sheet kept locally on the computer.
As an aside, the problem went away last night as the wifi connection reappeared just as mysteriously as it had disappeared. Its not the first time I have had this problem though this time, it lasting 18 hours rather than just ten minutes, is the longest nightmare its given me.
@lsemmens Yes, I should have been clearer, I had already search long throughout the system settings.
I think airplane mode switches the setting from WirelessEnabled=true to WirelessEnabled=false and the command is an easy way to switch it back