and on my laptop, with the ethernet cable disconnected and "Enable Wi-Fi" checked, there's no delay when booting and nm-online immediately comes back with Connecting............... 30s [online]
On Sat, Oct 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
