Try plugging the network cable into the Thinkpad's built-in ethernet port instead of the dock's?
The interfaces being missing is usually due to drivers, especially for wireless hardware. The fact that the dock's ethernet interface worked on the old system with the same OS is curious though. -wes On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 1:14 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > I am sitting here with my new Thinkpad P73, and no internet. > > Yesterday I had not yet shut down and removed my old computer, so the > Thinkpad was connected directly to the cable. Ethernet worked then, but > wifi did not exist. At the command line ifconfig just showed eth0 (now > called enp0s31f6) and lo (loopback). As long as the cable was working I > decided to leave wifi for later. > > Just now I shut down the old computer and put the Thinkpad in its place > on my desk. I carefully plugged everything into the Lenovo Thunderbolt3 > dock and then connected the dock to the Thinkpad. Everything is working > except both ethernet and wifi are now dead. At the command line > ifconfig still shows enp0s31f6, but it is not connected. I tried sudo > ifconfig enp0s31f6 up, which executed without error, but still no > connection. I can't ping anything on my network ('network is > unreachable'). As before, wifi still does not exist. > > There is a green light where the cable connects to the dock, or at the > computer if I connect it directly. However, the light is solid, not > flashing as it usually does. I also replaced the cable, even though the > green light probably indicates a good connection. > > I rebooted and looked all over the BIOS for some setting that might > have turned off wifi, but found nothing. Years ago I had a computer > that wouldn't connect to wifi until I found a physical switch that was > on 'airplane mode.' On this computer there is no such switch, nor can i > find a keyboard button with an airplane on it, or anything else that > looks promising. > > I am writing this on my desktop computer. I really need the Thinkpad to > connect! > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
