Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working on XFCE

MGu3l · 2015-04-10 14:11:13

Usually I'm connected by the ehternet port, but sometimes I have to move and since yesterday mi wi-fi stopped working, in fact it recognizes all the networks around but when I try to connect to one it simply doesn't. I'm trying to do it from nm-applet and I don't know hot to do it from console to get some feedback about whats going on.

dice · 2015-04-10 15:53:09

First thing to do would be to look at the logs and see if there are any error messages.

MGu3l · 2015-04-12 18:33:56

Seems like there's a problem with kernel 3.19 and some broadcom cards, there used to be a message about 0x17 and 0x18 but now that i have the LTS kernel is gone... unfortunately I can test it yet cause the gtk3 update is disabling the nm-applet and there's no way to connect to wifi.

jasonwryan · 2015-04-12 18:35:38

MGu3l wrote:

...and there's no way to connect to wifi.

You can always connect manually; and it has the advantage of printing specific error messages.

MGu3l · 2015-04-13 02:31:22

You are right jasonwryan... i should hav said "I don't know how to connect manually"

Quick Update: the nm-applet is related to the pixel size of the applet, right now I decreased it to 21pixels and it shows in the notification area, and also Wifi is working all of a sudden.

TheGasolineWillBeOurs · 2015-04-13 07:55:00

I had problems, too, a few month ago, but it seems to be gone with kernel 3.19.

To use the command line, you can do

nmcli d w

to see the available wifis and then

nmcli d w connect <SSID> password <password>

to connect.

cyrus · 2015-04-13 08:40:07

Hasn't this been sorted after the recent gtk3 update?

MGu3l · 2015-04-16 01:53:30

cyrus wrote:

Hasn't this been sorted after the recent gtk3 update?

AFAIK the problem with gtk3 was related to the dissapearance of the nm-applet, but in my case there was no applet but also I couldn't connect to a WiFi previously used.

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Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working on XFCE

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