Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

Hi Nancy FWIW you can try "rfkill list" in the terminal. If it seems your wireless card is soft blocked, "rfkill unblock" (possibly followed by "sudo service network-manager restart") might help. https://linux.die.net/man/1/rfkill On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 09:30:53PM -0500, Nancy Allison

Re: [Discuss] disappearing memory

Laura Conrad wrote: > memtest...sees [8G]... But top and /proc/meminfo only see 4. > > I'm suspecting that something about the install got screwed up when I > updated from 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS. I'm not aware of a software setting in Linux that would cause RAM not to be seen (other than some

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

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 wrote: > Have you stumbled across this yet? I

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

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"

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

Nancy Allison wrote: > The Fn-F8 key combo is not doing anything... Another thing you can try to rule out hardware issues is to boot a "Live CD" of Ubuntu and see if you can get connected to WiFi with that. (The install media (CD or USB drive) you used to install Ubuntu can be used as a Live CD

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

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-satellite-52666.html The Fn-F8 key combo is not doing anything, unfortunately. Fn-F12 (which looks like an oldfashioned glass thermometer with

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

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 wrote: > Hi, everyone. Thank you for your great replies! I hope this additional >

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

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

Re: [Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

Nancy Allison writes: > Preface: I decided to use Ubuntu on my laptop as a way of thumbing my nose > at Microsoft and Apple. Most Linux people are pretty technically savvy. Me, > not so much. Cool. > > Suddenly, my 16.04 installation doesn't connect to wifi. I am

Re: [Discuss] disappearing memory

On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote: > > My system has been running really slow lately, and I have been swearing > at firefox and websites that load 200 ads before showing any content. > > But then I noticed that I was using only 4G of memory, and I knew I had > more

[Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

Preface: I decided to use Ubuntu on my laptop as a way of thumbing my nose at Microsoft and Apple. Most Linux people are pretty technically savvy. Me, not so much. Suddenly, my 16.04 installation doesn't connect to wifi. I am writing to you on my Windows 7 machine, which does successfully