[Discuss] Ubuntu 16.04 Wifi Connection Disappeared

[jlsavage at gmail.com (Joel A Savage)]

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" <nancythewriter7 at 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-
> 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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