For ages I've been running this machine with the wifi interface disabled and it hasn't caused any problems. That changed with the reboot today :(
I'm using XFCE and right clicking on the NetworkManager Applet brings up a pop-up menu that has Enable Networking Enable Wi-Fi Enable Notifications menu items. I normally do not have a check mark next to Enable Wi-Fi and the wifi interface stays down and rebooting proceeds normally. Today, rebooting took a very long time. I took a picture of the boot-up screen and the boot process hung on Job networking.service/start running (4 min 1s / 5 min 14s) If I put the mouse over the NetworkManager Appleticon it says "No network connection" but that's clearly wrong - I can send this msg. If I run nm-online it counts down from 30 seconds and then says Connecting............... 0s [offline] which is clearly wrong since the ethernet connection works & you're reading my email message. How do I get back to the old behavior of _either_ the ethernet or wifi connection being up has the machine thinking it's online? TIA, Lee
