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kkeller

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Registered: 2010-11-09

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[SOLVED] Intel Centrino 2230 Not Connecting - Lenovo Ideapad Y510p

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Y510p, and I have everything working, except wifi. I tried using both NetworkManager and WICD, and both of them do the same thing. It attempts to authenticate, then it tries to assign an IP, then it just stops. It doesn't do anything else. I've reloaded the module (iwldvm and iwlwifi) multiple times, and have tried disabling the 11n band. I have no idea why it's not working. Any help is greatly appreciated! Sorry for the lack of info, I'm not sure how else to describe it, or what logs to include!

Last edited by kkeller (2014-05-17 16:39:10)

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Intel Centrino 2230 Not Connecting - Lenovo Ideapad Y510p

Logs are centralized in the journal these days.

But it sounds as though you simply have conflicting network management services trying to run at the same time.  I imagine that it is probably either dhcpcd.service or dhcpcd@eth0.service (or whatever your ethernet interface gets named).

kkeller

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Registered: 2010-11-09

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Intel Centrino 2230 Not Connecting - Lenovo Ideapad Y510p

Logs are centralized in the journal these days.

But it sounds as though you simply have conflicting network management services trying to run at the same time.  I imagine that it is probably either dhcpcd.service or dhcpcd@eth0.service (or whatever your ethernet interface gets named).

Wow, now I feel stupid. That was it. I forgot I enabled dhcpcd.service a few days ago. I just disabled it and it works perfectly. Thank you so much!

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Intel Centrino 2230 Not Connecting - Lenovo Ideapad Y510p

No worries.  This is a pretty common issue.