Hi Nancy
FWIW you can try "rfkill list" in the terminal. If it seems your wireless card
is soft blocked, "rfkill unblock" (possibly followed by "sudo service
network-manager restart") might help.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/rfkill
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 09:30:53PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
Laura Conrad wrote:
> memtest...sees [8G]... But top and /proc/meminfo only see 4.
>
> I'm suspecting that something about the install got screwed up when I
> updated from 14.04LTS to 16.04LTS.
I'm not aware of a software setting in Linux that would cause RAM not to
be seen (other than some adva
Tried it. Error message flashed : Disconnected -- you are now offline.
Clicked the windshield wiper triangle icon. Enable Networking is selected.
There is no option to enable wifi.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Joel A Savage wrote:
> Have you stumbled across this yet? I guess this behavior i
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" wrote:
> I'm looking
Nancy Allison wrote:
> The Fn-F8 key combo is not doing anything...
Another thing you can try to rule out hardware issues is to boot a "Live
CD" of Ubuntu and see if you can get connected to WiFi with that.
(The install media (CD or USB drive) you used to install Ubuntu can be
used as a Live CD b
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
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
wrote:
> Hi, everyone. Thank you for your great replies! I hope this additional
> detail is useful. (Yep, means
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 pro
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.n1..
Nancy Allison writes:
> Preface: I decided to use Ubuntu on my laptop as a way of thumbing my nose
> at Microsoft and Apple. Most Linux people are pretty technically savvy. Me,
> not so much.
Cool.
>
> Suddenly, my 16.04 installation doesn't connect to wifi. I am writing to
> you on my Windows
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 04:17:27PM -0500, Laura Conrad wrote:
>
> My system has been running really slow lately, and I have been swearing
> at firefox and websites that load 200 ads before showing any content.
>
> But then I noticed that I was using only 4G of memory, and I knew I had
> more than
My system has been running really slow lately, and I have been swearing
at firefox and websites that load 200 ads before showing any content.
But then I noticed that I was using only 4G of memory, and I knew I had
more than that.
I looked at the sales slip, and it has 8G. I ran memtest, and it
Preface: I decided to use Ubuntu on my laptop as a way of thumbing my nose
at Microsoft and Apple. Most Linux people are pretty technically savvy. Me,
not so much.
Suddenly, my 16.04 installation doesn't connect to wifi. I am writing to
you on my Windows 7 machine, which does successfully connect
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