Questions tagged [wifi]
WiFi is a networking technology permitting the exchange of information through wireless (radio) connections.
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Wifi connection but no internet [on hold]
I have parrot OS on my laptop connected to my home internet. Am trying to get a PC running now. Have tried Manjaro, Ubuntu Mate and Lubuntu. Every time, although the installation is faultless, the ...
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Wifi applet in Raspbian wrongly says that I am not connected to internet
I have a Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspbian Lite (Stretch) installed. I've connected to my wifi via command line and installed MATE and now I am adding some things to the desktop like the wifi applet. I've ...
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Share USB audio device over Ethernet
I connect my Linux laptop to an Onkyo P-3000R (a USB DAC) using a 10 meter USB cable. I would like to replace that long USB cable with a WiFi connection, if possible.
I could connect my Onkyo USB ...
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Kali Linux VM - Wifi Adapter Not Detected [duplicate]
I've recently been messing about with Kali Linux in a VM and I can't get my wifi adapter to work in Kali. I know it works with kali because I've used it on a laptop, but it won't work in a VM. From ...
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How to simultaneously connect to two different networks via WiFi access points (laptop with one WiFi card)
I wish to use a laptop and simultaneously connect wirelessly to an intranet and to the Internet. Assume the subnet IP address ranges are 192.168.0.X for the network with Internet access and 10.10.0.X ...
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Make wpa_supplicant switch network if can't reach internet
I have a scenario with many WiFI APs (sharing the same SSID) and a bunch of headless clients connected to them. WiFi connection is handled by wpa_supplicant.
Sometimes it just happens that one or ...
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Wifi does not show up in the Gnome UI
The wifi isn't showing up in the network manager in Gnome. There is a wifi entry along with wired, but it doesn't show any SSID. The wifi is enabled and the hardware shows up when I run lspci, and ...
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Help in setting up TpLink TL-WN722N with VirtualBox [closed]
I have been having issues trying to setup my new tplink TL-WN722N with Kali Linux 2018 on Virtualbox debian 64 bit on a Windows 10 Host. I have the network setting in virtualbox settings set to NAT. I ...
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How does debian-installer configure WiFi during installation?
I am building Raspberry Pi images using the raspi3-image-spec project. Since it isn't the result of a conventional d-i installation, it obviously neither asks nor configures the root with WiFi ...
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Unable to authenticate with wifi networks
I recently upgraded a server version of Ubuntu 16 to Lubuntu 18. I can discover all available WiFi networks but I cannot authenticate at least with two known networks. I am not sure the system has any ...
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NetworkManager Displaying Wrong Security Type
I am working on an application that sends a reconfiguration command to its access point. The access point should reconfigure itself from being protected by WPA2 to being an open network. The access ...
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Arch linux set up wifi issue
I've just finished setting up arch linux and am trying to configure wifi (wired internet works ok I checked).
As for wireless I have this issue: I try to connect to wireless router with iw dev ...
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TP-Link TL-WN722N Issues with VirtualBox [duplicate]
Recently on Kali Linux 2018 64 bit, I am having trouble trying to get my TP-Link TL-WN722N working with aircrack and monitor mode. I have tried most online guides on how to get wifi adapters working ...
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Odd Wireless Behaviour
I'm using a Realtek rtl8192eu chip. I spent ages trying to connect to my router. Eventually, I reloaded the rtl8xxxu module. That fixed it until next boot. Once again I had to do the same. This time I ...
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Is there a display manager that allows setup of wifi connection before logging in?
I'm working on a pam_ldap solution for laptop users, but of course it won't work unless wifi is connected. I won't know ahead of time what wifi network users will be on.
I want to emulate how ...
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Realtek Wifi interface is not stable in Kali linux [duplicate]
I have a kali linux system(VM) and I added realtek wireless adapter to it and same is detecting as a wireless interface
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3: wlan0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 ...
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Wifi in FreeBSD Live USB
After using Linux for quite some time now I want to try out FreeBSD. I created a bootable USB stick and want to play around a bit in the live CD mode. The first problem I encounter is that I don't ...
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BeagleBone Black - I can't connect to WiFi [closed]
I have a BeagleBone Black with Debian Wheezy and kernel v4.1. The problem is that I can't connect my BeagleBone to Wifi because the my TP-Link WN722N v2.0 Wireless adapter is not recognizable by the ...
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No Wi-Fi on CentOS 7 [closed]
After hours and hours of compiling drivers, reinstalling the OS, and trying to use ElRepo, I have not been able to successfully use any wireless capabilities on my HP da0014dx. It has a RealTek 8723DE ...
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Elementary Juno wireless printer unavailable but installed
I have a Brother HL-1212W in a fresh ElementaryOS Juno (18.04 LTS based) and cannot make it work. I tried with the official Brother drivers and with the default open ones but unsuccessfully. In 16.04 ...
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Not able to see wifi interface in ifconfig in Kali linux [duplicate]
I have added a wifi adapter to my Kali linux box but I am not able to see it in ifconfig output.
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root@kali:~# uname -a
Linux kali 4.17.0-kali3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.17.17-1kali1 (2018-...
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KDE Neon Network Manager Keeps Asking For Password And Fails To Connect To My Router - KDE Neon User Edition
So, I installed a fresh version of KDE Neon on my HDD drive from a bootable USB and have been running it on my Macbook Pro 13 inch 2017. My instant guess was that I didnt have certain drivers ...
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Not able to see wifi interface in ifconfig in centOS 6.5
I have added a wifi adapter to my CentOS 6.5 box but I am not able to see it in ifconfig output.
Wireless adapter in dmesg output
[root@testldap log]# dmesg | grep -i netgear
usb 1-1: Product: ...
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DHCP works on wifi but my computer cannot receive unicast packets only broadcast packets
I cannot use my wireless capabilities of my laptop at all.
I connect to my home router manually (without using the network manager, I purged it). Using the following commands:
ifconfig wlan0 up
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Kali wireless can't detect available wifi connection [duplicate]
i installed kali 2018.2 on VirtualBox , laptop asus windows 10
While installing Kali (Dual Boot) the installation process could not detect network even after having all the drivers Well after the ...
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Missing wireless tools (wpa-supplicant) in fresh NixOS install
Following the NixOS Manual, I i) made a live USB drive, and ii) installed NixOS on my system.
Now I'm trying to set up my wireless network, and "Wireless Networks" instructions aren't working for my ...
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No Wi-Fi Adapter Found yet I'm still using wifi. My “Wired” setting is connected but I have no ethernet cord plugged in
I usually use ethernet for the internet but now I want to use the wifi and I don't have the option, in settings it says "No Wi-Fi Adapter Found". If I remember correctly I used to be able to use wi-fi ...
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Does two hardware radios required to re-share WiFi in OpenWRT?
I would like to put some router in my car and make it either automatically connect to one of my home WiFi networks as a client or connect to 4G mobile network otherwise. In each case I want it to ...
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Is it possible to connect Mini PCIe Wireless Adapter to Laptop by ExressCard?
I want to connect a wireless adapter with mini pcie interface to my laptop that runs Ubuntu 16.04 through laptop's ExpressCard interface. I want to know if that is possible. Is the wireless adapter ...
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Limit `nmcli dev wifi` to display one entry per unique SSID
When I use the graphical interface to NetworkManager (via the tray icon), it displays around 10
SSIDs (for my current location). However, when I use nmcli dev wifi it
returns around 55 entries. The ...
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How can I enable wireless in Elementary OS?
After installing Elementary Loki 0.4.1 on my new HP-15bs015dx laptop, the wireless was not working at all, no wifi adapter was even detected. I then had to manually install drivers for my hardware, ...
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How to analyse wireless network problems?
One of my Linux boxes, having a wireless NIC, connects to a remote machine and suddenly started disconnecting. Sometimes this wireless device disconnect after an hour, sometimes after 10 hours or ...
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Unable to change network card into Monitor Mode with RP-Link TL-WN821N V6 [duplicate]
I recently got a TP-Link TL-WN821N V6 for use with Kali Linux, however I am unable to switch it into monitor mode.
This is the output when attempting to switch modes to monitor,
root@kali:~# ...
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Unable to get my PCE-AC56 working properly, but was only able to get it working and decently stable once
As the title says, I've been trying to get my Asus PCE-AC56 to work with Linux Mint 18.3, which the wireless card has a Broadcom BCM4352 chip on it. I was able to at times, but it would run terrible ...
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Ubutnu 18.04 host + RT2870/RT2030 Wireless Adapter failing when running hostapd
I am running into this problem, where I am unsuccessful in finding a solution for.
I have an alfa card which ubuntu 18.04 recognized as
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 148f:3070 Ralink Technology, Corp. ...
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How to use nmcli to remove 802.1x security via command-line
How can I use nmcli to remove the 802.1x security completely from the connection? I need the equivalent of selecting "Off" for 802.1x Security option on the Security tab of the Wired connection.
I ...
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tcpdump with multiple subtypes specified?
I'm trying to create a bash script to detect deauthentication attacks (I am on Mac). Whilst I am aware that the command:
$ tcpdump -l -I -i en0 -e -s 256 type mgt subtype deauth
will detect ...
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Bully v1.1 showing “locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C”. What can I do?
I'm trying to use Bully v1.1.
After I enter ./bully.py, the Bully G1 v1.1 window appears. When I press the Run button, this message appears:
Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
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Unable to compile brcmfmac Driver in Linux
I'm attempting to re-compile a patched brcmfmac driver I have made myself. However, compilation has failed even after I have copied all the /include files into the usr/include folders.
The following ...
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Is there a reason not to uninstall wireless packages if no wireless is present?
Most of my systems are based on CentOS 7 minimal. This includes by default a number of wireless-related packages:
$ yum list installed | grep iw
iw.x86_64 4.3-1.el7 ...
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accidentally deleted dhcpcd5 package [closed]
I have deleted dhcpcd5 package with the sudo apt-get purge dhcpcd5 command and now my wireless interface isn’t recognized, so I can’t install it again. How can I access the internet again without ...
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Modifying and Re-compiling Linux Drivers [closed]
I'm interested in modifying and re-compiling one of the wireless drivers in a Linux environment. I know exactly which line in what file I need to modify, however may I know how can I re-compile the ...
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Packet injection does not work on 12.04 [closed]
Im trying to test my OpenWrt network but after putting interface wlx3c3300200748 to monitor mode
$ sudo Desktop/startWlan.sh wlx3c3300200748
and issuing command this command:
$ aireplay -9 ...
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Hostapd SSID disappears after some seconds
I'm using hostapd to share another wifi connection through my raspberry pi zero w bult in wifi card. After the raspberry pi boot I can see my SSID in my phone and even connect to it and use it for ...
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Create an access point to 'bridge' between two wireless connections. How should /etc/network/interfaces look?
I'm following this guide: Setting up a Raspberry Pi as an access point in a standalone network (NAT) to create an access point. The only difference is that I'm using another wifi connection where the ...
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Simulating bad packet transmission in a OpenWRT Raspberry Pi router
I'm currently trying to simulate bad signal/traffic in a wireless environment by trying to randomly flip bits in a packet. Specifically, I am trying to flip the bits in the data section of a TCP ...
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Wireless adapter disappears when put in monitor mode [closed]
I just downloaded and installed Kali 2018.2 to my dell laptop. As soon as I launch Linset (an Evil Twin attack tool) and permit it to put card into monitor mode, the wireless adaptor shuts down as ...
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Linux I have 2 WIFI Adapter everytime I boot up they switched each other to wlan0 and wlan1
I have problem everytime I boot up my two wifi adapters switched to wlan0 and wlan1 thus my code is ruined I need your help.
Edit: My OS is ParrotOS on amd64
My Wifiadapters are TP-Link with same ...
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How to install WiFi driver in Debian 9?
I installed Debian 9.
Now I need to install WiFi card driver. But, I couldn't find a working one on my system.
These are my devices listed by command lspci -nn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel ...
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Ethernet PC cannot interact with WiFi devices
My Arch Linux PC that is connected directly to the router through an Ethernet cable doesn't seem to be able to interact with other devices that are connected in the same network but with WiFi, for ...
