How to keep laptop running when lid is closed (20.04.3 LTS)

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 09:20:43 +0100, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 08:00, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> My big problem now is that the laptop does not switch on WiFi until I have
>> physically logged on via the GUI screen on the laptop itself. So I cannot keep
>> the laptop stashed on the shelf and use it via the network...
>
>Check in the wifi settings for that connection that you have enabled
>Make Available to Other Users (or something similar).
>I don't know if that is the problem, but I am hopeful.
>
>Colin

Thanks very much!
I did the following:

On the GUI screen:
- click network symbol in upper right
- Edit Connections
- Select the connection name
- Click settings (the cogwheel in lower left of window)
- Select tab "General"
- Check "All users may connect to this network"

Now when I reboot the laptop I can connect by SSH because the WiFi is connected!

When this was done I checked the file I had looked at before:

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/bossefiber

Now the connections section looks like this:

[connection]
id=bossefiber
uuid=62ec4373-686b-4538-8c8d-ca75df3e47cf
type=wifi
permissions=
timestamp=1633690255


Notice that the permissions item is now empty...


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden