I've had the same problem on the same laptop (Dell XPS 13 9350) with Ubuntu Gnome 16.04. I've had this since I've started using the networkmanager-openvpn and networkmanager-vpnc plugins in order to be able to connect to a VPN service. Also, since I've been using Xenial since the beta release (and thus having "passed through" all of the kernel updates) I do not think that this is a kernel issue but rather a NetworkManager one (or the VPN plugins).
I've managed to overcome the issue like this: Whenever my wifi was recognised as wired if I restarted the network- manager service with sudo service network-manager restart wifi was back again. In order to automate this and not do it every time after login I've simply added the above command on /etc/rc.local Now everything works fine...until an official fix is issued (...again IMHO a NetworkManager issue). I hope that this will work for you as well. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1569484 Title: Auto Ethernet connection profile appears. Wifi does not work anymore. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1569484/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
