[xubuntu-users] wifi

[Coos de Poel]

I just read the mail and 5 minutes later i did not have wifi.

Op 19-12-2020 om 10:23 schreef Chris Green:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:00:50AM +0100, Coos de Poel wrote:
>>     I have the problem that sometimes the laptop cannot find the
>>     wifi-connection, during using the laptop. The only way to get wifi
>>     back, is to start up Windows and then restart Xubuntu 20.04. Also a
>>     wifi Usb-stick will help sometimes.
>>
> Laptops often have a switch for their WiFi which (also very often)
> isn't mentioned in the documentation (what documentation?).
>
> I'd guess that the WiFi is simply being switched off somehow and that,
> maybe, Windows can turn the WiFi on by software.
>
> So, see if you can find the (physical) switch and turn the WiFi on. In
> my (limited) experience the switch is often down on the front edge of
> the laptop case, LHS usually.
>
> If you can't find a physical switch then investigate whether there is
> a software 'WiFi on/off' and maybe there's a Linux implementation of it.
>
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