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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > [email protected] > > https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
