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GloW_on_dub

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Registered: 2013-03-13

Posts: 388

[solved]Wifi interface staying dormant

After an upgrade feb 3 where nothing stood out, and a reboot, i was unable to connect via Wifi.
I quickly realized it was dut to the fact that even after sucessfully connecting, my wifi interface was flagged as DORMANT :

4: wlp61s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 9c:b6:d0:60:22:b3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Wich was quickly fixed by :

sudo ip link set wlp61s0 mode default

4: wlp61s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 9c:b6:d0:60:22:b3 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

In any case it is quite strange. So if you have any indsight why this extra step would be needed, i would apreciate it.

Seems related to : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169302

Last edited by GloW_on_dub (2018-02-04 18:26:49)

GloW_on_dub

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Registered: 2013-03-13

Posts: 388

Re: [solved]Wifi interface staying dormant

It disapeared by itself after another reboot, strange.