Hi Nancy,
Can you post your laptop brand and model.
On 01/03/2017 09:30 PM, Nancy Allison wrote:
Tried it. Error message flashed : Disconnected -- you are now offline.
Clicked the windshield wiper triangle icon. Enable Networking is selected.
There is no option to enable wifi.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Joel A Savage <jlsav...@gmail.com> wrote:
Have you stumbled across this yet? I guess this behavior is well known.
Try the nmtui command and variants see if that gets you any traction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxActionShow/comments/4jqv67/ubuntu_1604_
networkmanager_fixed/
On Jan 3, 2017 9:04 PM, "Nancy Allison" <nancythewrit...@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm looking at this webpage, which looked promising. Why does it want me
to
download a driver?
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disable-wireless-toshiba-sate
llite-52666.html
The Fn-F8 key combo is not doing anything, unfortunately. Fn-F12 (which
looks like an oldfashioned glass thermometer with the bulb on top) turns
on
and off the Bluetooth icon.
Dang.
I wonder if I will have to wait until the next BLU installfest to get it
working. Computers are great when they work.
What did I doooooo!
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Gregory Boyce <gbo...@badbelly.com>
wrote:
A lot of laptops include a shut off for the wireless in the form of a
function key or a physical switch. It may be worth checking for that.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 8:35 PM Nancy Allison <nancythewrit...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi, everyone. Thank you for your great replies! I hope this additional
detail is useful. (Yep, means problem not solved yet.)
Greg:
I followed your numbered steps, which were great, through #3. At #4, I
see
your screenshot. However, the list on the left contains only two items:
Wired
Network proxy
Airplane Mode is off, but there is no Wireless item on the right, and
no
wireless networks are listed.
Greg and Mike: I opened the terminal window and entered this command:
sudo service network-manager restart
I put in my password.
For a while, a handy Enable Wi-Fi option appeared in a menu at the top
of
the window. I clicked it! But still, it didn't discover my local wi-fi
network, so I thought, "I'll reboot, and when it loads up, it will
find my
Wi-Fi network, and all will be well."
Alas, it was not to be. Instead, the Enable Wi-Fi option disappeared
once
again from the list, and of course my local network was not listed
among
the wi-fi networks.
So, I was back to square one.
Mike, I have a Toshiba Satellite. After a little googling about
identifying
my wireless card, I ran lspci in the terminal window, and I'm seeing:
network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev cb)
Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL8111/8168/8411PCI
Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c)
Is this the information you were looking for? Ubuntu 14.nn on this
laptop
linked successfully to the Internet for quite a while. But maybe Ubuntu
16.04 could have problems with the same networking card?
As a last thought, I've rebooted numerous times, so even if I messed
up my
password a time or two, I don't think I could have messed it up every
time.
Thank you all so much. If there's more information that would help, ask
away. If you can think of any next steps I should try, I'm all ears!
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:16 PM, Bill Ricker <bill.n1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I have had problems with WIFI waking from SUSPEND with 16.04 with one
laptop.
(and with a prior version with another laptop! Both Lenovo T61's.)
Don't know if that's your issue but mentioning it just in case.
(And i may try the suggested sudo restart on that one, thanks )
Bill Ricker
bill.n1...@gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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