Wireless not connecting...

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 31 May 2019 at 21:44, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
 > just to see if Wifi works.
> >
> > OK, I just booted Mint 19.1 -- *same exact* behavior.  Right now, I am dd'ing
> > Ubuntu 19.04 to a thumb drive, just to see if that makes any difference...
>
> And the same for Ubuntu 19.04...  The behavior is too much like trying to
> connect to a too far distant AP -- close enough to see the SSID, but not
> close enough to make a solid connection, *except* iwconfig is showing a good
> signal.  Something is definately weird here.
>
> Given that the machine's battery is kaput (and thus it must be tethered to its
> power brick), being tethered to an Ethernet cord is probably not a serious
> problem.  And of course it is still usable to edit documents residing on thumb
> drives.

Yes, I'm afraid so.

And you don't know if it worked before under Windows?

I reckon the path of least resistance is to plug it in. I'm wondering
if the antenna is damaged.

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