Questions tagged [wifi]
WiFi is a networking technology permitting the exchange of information through wireless (radio) connections.
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nmtui unable to activate wireless connection, nmcli dev status says wifi unavailable
I'm very new to using linux. When I try using nmtui to connect to wifi, the only option in "activate a connection" is wired connection. When I use nmcli dev status, it outputs wlo1 wifi ...
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Wi-fi network device has Ethernet link layer
I'm capturing packets using Wireshark on my Macbook. Pinging some public IP (e.g., 8.8.8.8) shows the ICMP packets going out my en0 interface. In Wireshark's capture options, that interface is ...
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unable to scan WiFi SSID
I have successfully integrated the "SD-WLAN-SD-BT-8997-U16-MMC-W16.68.10.p162-16.26.10.p162-C4X16693_V4-MGPL" driver into Android 12 Linux 4.9.178 on our custom BG5CT-based platform. With ...
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Wifi goes down after some time
My wifi goes down and I have to reboot. I never paid attention to this until it started to annoy me. Here are logs:
kernel rtl8723be: Init MAC failed
wpa_supplicant wlp3s0: Failed to initialize driver ...
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Does getting WiFi working on Debian 12 really require an internet connection on the device in question?
When booting a fresh install of Debian 12 Bookworm I'm met with a message saying I need to go to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware ...
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Wifi is not showing on PureOS?
Hello the option to connect to Wifi is not shown on the PureOS settings?
Which firmware should I install ?
Distro ID: PureOS
Descrip: PureOS 10 Byzantium
Releases: 10
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Alpine Linux: Can I bridge the eth0 to WiFi?
The problem: I have Alpine Linux downloaded on my phone, but it cannot be pinged by other devices on the network. It seems to have its own IP address and gateway that is different from the network. My ...
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How do I connect Alpine Linux to WiFi?
The problem: I have Alpine Linux downloaded but it seems to have its own IP address and gateway that is different from the network. My network has the range of 192.168.1.X/24 and gateway of 192.168.1....
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WIFI connection unstable - keeps dropping and reconnecting on archlinux
Today my laptop started randomly experiencing issues where it cannot maintain a stable connection on my home network for more than 30s.
I have tried the following w/out success...
(1) Killing ...
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Raspberry pi running arch linux connected to two different wan ports(wifi and ethernet) I want to disable intenet access and keep local access
I have a unique setup I think. I have a raspberry pi running pikvm. I have two internet connections at home (Xfinity and ATT):
xfinity connected via --> ethernet port (MAIN)
ATT connected vis --&...
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Wifi works only after abrupt shutdown
Its a weird thing but wifi on my Ubuntu only recognised wifi of my home router after I abruptly shutdown using my power button. Before that, It only shows 2 wifi names, not of my home wifi or wifi ...
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Wifi driver not ready
I am facing issues with Realtek Wi-Fi card (8852be) when dual-booting Kali Linux alongside Windows on your HP Pavilion 14 ec1000x laptop wifi automatically gets disabled or not able to connect so give ...
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8811CU driver for 6.x kernel
I've been struggling for a few days now looking for a driver that would bring my Wi-Fi adapter back to life, but I haven't succeeded so far. My adapter is Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11ac NIC (...
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How can I mirror the screen on my Windows 10 laptop to my Linux device?
I have Windows 10 installed on one of my laptops.
I also have a Linux (Debian Bullseye) device connected to a big display through HDMI.
My laptop and my Linux device are connected to my router through ...
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Unable to connect to university WPA2 enterprise wifi
I am using NetworkManager on arch to connect to my university WiFi. I used nm-connection-editor to create the connection. Here is the config:
id=ESSID
uuid=b18a2b1c-02f6-48cd-a49d-a91e95cb80ed
type=...
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Intel wireless network card cannot be properly initialized
I want to enable wireless on my openwrt but it doesn't work.
Besides, the wireless could be enabled through iw phy phy0 add interfacecommand manually.
So, it seems there's something wrong in my kernel ...
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Wi-fi adapter not recognized on Kali Linux
I bought a wireless adapter Realtek 8812BU Wireless. It came with a small CD for the driver but since I don't have a CD-ROM I looked for the driver on the Internet.
After a few searches, I managed to ...
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Cannot connect to Wi-Fi: Wireless toggle is not displayed [closed]
I just bought a new laptop (Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3, if it's relevant), it had no OS and I decided to install Mint. The problem is that I cannot get Wifi to work.
When I click the network manager icon ...
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Linux Mint 21 - Broadcom 43142 - wifi stopped working
I'm using Mint 21 on an HP 17-y002na laptop. It's been connected via ethernet cable for much of the time since I updated to 21, but has had wifi capability at times. Last week I noticed that the ...
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Internal PCI-Express WiFi card showing in lspci but not showing in network settings/connections - Linux Mint 21 - 5.15.0-82-generic
The issue
In my computer I have this internal WiFi PCIExpress:"Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260"
So, it shows up in lspci as:
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 ...
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TPLink Wifi Adapter LED Light Issue in Manjaro
I have installed Manjaro XFCE in my Laptop, that also has Windows 8.1 in a dual-boot format.
I connect to Wifi using TP-Link (TL-WN823N) adapter and I have installed the driver (rtl8192eu.dkms).
But, ...
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Fix unstable Wifi support on Linux
I bought a new laptop (IdeaPad Flex 5 16ABR8) and the wifi is not always working. After startup most of the time it works just fine at first, but after a while it stops working completely. However, ...
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Ubuntu not detecting wifi after sleep
I had recently dual booted Ubuntu (latest version) with windows 11 on my laptop. But everytime I put it on sleep and get it back on, it does not show any available wifi networks, and sometimes even ...
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Jetson Xavier NX + Intel AX210NGW WIFI 6E 6Ghz
my setup:
Jetson Xavier NX, Jetpack 5.1.1, ubuntu 20.04, linux kernel 5.10
Intel AX210NGW WIFI 6E 6Ghz
Router netgear RAXE300 tri-band
situation:
I was able to connect to wifi 6ghz from my laptop ...
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Realtek 8822CE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC drivers for fedora 38
my Internet connection is not working well, where can I download the driver for my Wi-Fi adapter Realtek 8822CE Wireless LAN 802.11ac PCI-E NIC?
My laptop Huawei D14 nbl-waq9r
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Can't connect to WiFi network
Did a software update on Ubuntu and now I can't connect to WiFi as there is no option for Wireless network available.
The output to my lshw -C network is
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: ...
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My DNS changes on its own but its changes can't be observed through /etc/resolv.conf
I made a script to print /etc/resolv.conf and ping result of www.reddit.com for every second. I used Cloudflare's DNS (1.1.1.1) because reddit is blocked in my country but bypassable using DNS. It ...
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What is brcmfmac exactly showing me during the core check?
I've been playing with tweaking the nvram text file for my wireless card (BCM43602 on a macbook pro).
I've found a couple wireless nvram programming references on which certain parameters (for example ...
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Entering wifi credentials to ROS2 robot in headless mode
I have designed a robot with ROS2 installed on a Ubuntu os, all running on a raspberry pi 4. Another esp32 is used to control the motors. The robot is water tight and sealed. Everytime I take it to a ...
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Playing Music through Sonos Speaker connected to ETH Raspberry Pi
I have a Raspberry Pi Wifi-to-Ethernet bridge, and have a Sonos Symfonisk speaker plugged into the Ethernet output. In it's current configuration I can't play music through the speaker, is there a ...
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I'm trying to make a wifi adapter with a old chipset
I want to know if a Ralink RT3070L chip has packet injection, monitor mode, and is compatible with Linux.
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Router Cannot See MAC Address of Devices Behind RPi Bridge
I followed Option 1 (Same Subnet) of this tutorial to turn my Raspberry Pi into a WiFi-to-Ethernet Bridge. It works great, but the router cannot see the device connected behind the bridge as being ...
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firmware failed to load mt7601u.bin in parrotsec
So I'm using parrotsec as a VM on UTM, and my real device is a macbook m2.
I want to use my mt7601u wifi adapter apart from the ethernet network I have, but when I connect my wifi adapter to the UTM ...
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Cannot Connect to the Wifi that configured with (IEEE) 802.1x protocol
In Ubuntu 22.04 I can easily connect to 802.1x wifi with following configurations succesfully;
Security -> WPA & WPA2 Enterprise
Authentication -> Protected EAP (PEAP)
NO CA certificate ...
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parrot os wifi adapter not detected
I'm running Linux in a VM on a Mackbook M2, and UTM to use Parrot OS. My wifi adapter is connected to a USB connecter, and when I use the command lspci, the following letters appear:
00:00.0 Host ...
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Incorrect shell output encoding
I'm not an expert in Linux, but I am following the development of a software that runs on Linux Buildroot. The device can only use the program for the graphical interface, access the shell, or connect ...
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No WiFi adapter found in Debian 12
I am trying to dual boot windows/linux (debian 12 bookworm) on my MSI Katana GF66 12UE laptop. I was able to install the operating system, but in the settings (in the WIFI section) it says no wifi ...
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Nothing changes when doing "iw reg set BO"
I know these kind of question already exists but it's from 2016 and doesn't work for me. I'm using the newest Kali version it's installed on my laptop.
So I wanted to "iw reg set BO" so I ...
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MacBook Pro's wifi doesn't work on a fresh Pop!_OS install
I have a MacBook Pro 16, and decided to install Pop!_OS on it.
My system info is:
OS: Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS x86_64
Host: MacBookPro16,2 1.0
Kernel: 6.2.6-76060206-generic
My Network controller is a ...
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Wifi - wpa_supplicant throwing no such device error
I am testing wifi in Ubuntu PC using wpa_supplicant utility. In PC, network device is listed as wlp3s0, when I tried to connect to wifi network using below command
wpa_supplicant -B -c /etc/...
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Internet speed really slow in debian bookworm kde but not in Windows
On windows browsing speed is great but on debian bookworm browsing speed is really slow, have referred many posts online but still can't figure out why.
Output of lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:...
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Additional IP being assigned to the wired interface breaks connection to the internet on my wired-to-wireless 'bridge' using parprouted
Description of the problem
I've been trying to set up a wired (usb) to wireless "bridge" using the parprouted approach on a Khadas VIM3L board running a Debian based distribution called ...
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How to confine Wi-Fi driver to use IEEE 802.11ac mode and lower?
I have a notebook with wi-fi chip that supports IEEE 802.11ax as most. Below is lspci output.
5d:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wi-Fi 6 AX210/AX211/AX411 160MHz (rev 1a)
And when I used ...
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MT9721K wireless adapter Drivers randomly stop working on debian and ubuntu based systems
After a certain amount of uptime, the OS is irreversably unable to detect the wireless adapter (MT7921K in this case). I previously "fixed" this by restoring the original Windows 11 install ...
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Wireless Card Not Sending Beacons During Heavy Traffic
I am using an Intel AX210 wireless card as an AP (actually a Wifi P2P Group Owner [GO]). However, I'm having trouble with it, because it seems like it is not sending beacon frames when there is high ...
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Offline installation wifi adapter TP-Link Archer T2U Nano with Realtek RTL8811AU or RT5370 in Debian Linux
I want to get my wifi adapter TP-Link Archer T2U Nano with Realtek RTL8811AU installed in Debian Linux 9.13 with kernel 4.9.88. Alternatively I've got a CAB-wifi-stick with RT5370 chipset.
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How to connect WIFI AP (hostapd) without passphase in Linux?
I am working on an embedded Linux system (kernel-5.14), and I am trying to configure the device as a WIFI AP by using hostapd (and using softAP mode).
The main modification of hostapd.conf is as ...
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Print entire 802.11 WiFi Ethernet frame header with tcpdump (or anything else)
I'm currently learning about WiFi Ethernet frames and want to sniff raw ethernet traffic from my laptop's WiFi adapter. Running
sudo tcpdump -vvv -n -i wifi0 -e
prints something like the following:
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Why doesn't my wi-fi router send STP frames?
I'm learning about Spanning Tree Protocol and was trying to capture STP frames sent from my wi-fi router by tcpdump. Here is the command:
sudo tcpdump -vv -n -i en0 stp
and for pretty large period ...
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Sony VAIO NetworkManager Network Manager wont allow me to select wi-fi network in applet Enable Wi-Fi
This worked for me. The solution is specific to Sony Vaio labtops though.
I'm a seasoned user of Linux,(33 years) so when my Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working I was a bit surprised.
The "Enable Wi-...
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