I was playing with configuration files in Debian when after reboot I lost connection to my router.
My NetworkManager says 'no Networks'. When I try and restart the Networking service it hangs and comes back with no errors. It states "Restarting networking(via systemctl): networking.service" and returns 0 after entering in echo $0
after that command.
sudo iwlist wlp3s0 scanning | grep "ESSID:"
seems to be working fine outputting:
ESSID:"ASIO Survellance Van 3"
ESSID :"BigPondD7990F"
ESSID:"NETGEAR26"
and so forth...
My /sbin/ifconfig
returns an ipv6 address but no ipv4.
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 3264 bytes 7382182 (7.0 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 3264 bytes 7382182 (7.0 MiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp3s0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::a6d1:8cff:fedb:1f6 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether a4:d1:8c:db:01:f6 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
/sbin/iwconfig
outputs:
lo no wireless extensions.
enp0s20u2 no wireless extensions.
wlp3s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=200 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
My external backup Alfa wireless card seems to not be showing in ifconfig -a
.
I have tried pinging 8.8.8.8 but it states network unreachable.
cat /etc/network/interfaces
outputs
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto wlp3s0
iface wlp3s0 inet dhcp
Update: I have installed and loaded the necessary module for bcm4360 wireless interface with modprobe wl
but still the same results. Even doing a modprobe -r wl && modprobe wl
doesn't work either.
Update: I have done a lsusb | grep "bcm4360"
but my wireless nic isn't coming up.
Update: I have access to wired connection via my router with ethernet and usb tethering with my phone.
Update: Output of sudo modprobe -r -v wl && sudo modprobe -v wl
:
rmmod wl
rmmod cfg80211
insmod /lib/modules/4.9.0-4-amd64/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/4.9.0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/wl.ko
Please help! If there's anymore information needed please let me know. I'm sure I'm missing something essential.
wpa_supplicant -i wlp3s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase Your_SSID your_password)
thendhclient wlp3s0
+ remove the RJ45 cable