Re: [ubuntu-uk] Surprising Wi-Fi Problem Cure

2018-10-30 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 16:20, Nigel Verity wrote: > > I thought the idea of mailing lists such as this was to share knowledge > rather than belittle others for having gaps in theirs. I was not actually > asking a question but you have clearly taken it as an opportunity to show all > the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Surprising Wi-Fi Problem Cure

2018-10-26 Thread Antonius Angelus
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Surprising Wi-Fi Problem Cure

2018-10-26 Thread Nigel Verity
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Surprising Wi-Fi Problem Cure

2018-10-26 Thread Liam Proven
On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 13:16, Nigel Verity wrote: > To cut a long story short Ctrl + Alt + F1 took me instantly out of the GUI to > a command line login prompt. After logging in I ran "startx" to fire up the > GUI and that took me to the "first use" screen you get when installing Xfce - > no

[ubuntu-uk] Surprising Wi-Fi Problem Cure

2018-10-26 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi I have an Acer laptop on which I run Xubuntu 18.04. Recently I've been having increasing problems with the wi-fi. At first it kept randomly dropping the connection, but allowed me to reconnect. The frequency of these dropouts increased and a few days ago it got to the point where not only