[Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

[nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)]

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 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 <gboyce at 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 <nancythewriter7 at 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.n1vux at 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.n1vux at gmail.com
>> > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
>> >
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