Running 'sudo rfkill unblock wifi' alone is NOT a workaround. After toggling 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' to OFF, gnome-control- center wifi reports "No Wi-Fi Adapter Found".
The only 'workaround' is to leave 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' set to ON, and to run 'sudo rfkill unblock wifi' on each reboot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805025 Title: gnome-control-center power - 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' soft blocks wifi device Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' setting defaults to ON. Toggling 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' to OFF causes the wifi device to be soft blocked. BEFORE$ sudo rfkill list all 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no AFTER$ sudo rfkill list all 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Candidate: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Version table: *** 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages Expected behavior: Power saving for wifi will be disabled. Actual behavior: Wifi is disabled. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1805025/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
