Why does 18.04 not detect WiFi devices that 16.04 detects

[Bret Busby]

On 08/07/2019, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 at 23:51, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Vendor: AMI
>> Version: 370H4W0X.103
>
> As Bret normally tends to ignore my comments I will be brief.
>


Loud raspberry.

Personal denigrations help no-one.

As it happens, today, after coming back to the computer, after being
away (with my cellphone, that I use as a wifi hotspot for the
computers that have wifi, to access the Internet) for a couple of
hours, the network manager (I assume that it is the network manager),
or, otherwise, the icon in the panel, that shows the signal strength
for  wifi connections, and, the ethernet/wifi connection status, upon
being clicked, displayed the available wifi connection devices.

Then, a few minutes later, it did not, again, showing just my cellphone.

Then, a few minutes later, it again displayed all the available wifi
connection devices.

So, I assume that the utility involved, is intermittent.

Oh, and, the reason that I had not gone into the BIOS/UEFI, or, booted
using a 16.04 iso image (all Ubuntu iso image discs, are LIVE, are
they not?), is due to having wanted to preserve the system state (open
web browser windows, etc), unless I absolutely needed to reboot (like
for a security update involving kernel upgrades).


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Bret Busby
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