<div dir="auto">Resolved<div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto">Downloaded Xubuntu 18.04 from other PC to DVD.</div><div dir="auto">Reinstalled to Lenovo netbook</div><div dir="auto">All good</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best regards</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 29, 2019, 09:52 Karel P Coors <<a href="mailto:kpcoors@gmail.com">kpcoors@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Appreciate it if anyone can suggest solution: on Xubuntu 16.04 I experienced intermittent wireless connections. Recently I switched to Ubuntu 18.04, the problem worsened. Find WICD, installed. Removed and purged network-manager. Got nowhere with WICD. Removed, purged WICD. Reinstall network-manager.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">Wired connection OK. Wireless not. Here some details I picked up:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">$ rfkill list<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small">
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">0: ideapad_wlan:
Wireless LAN</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Soft blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Hard blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">1:
ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Soft blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Hard blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">2: ideapad_3g:
Wireless WAN</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Soft blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Hard blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">3: phy0: Wireless
LAN</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Soft blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Hard blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">4: hci0: Bluetooth</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Soft blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Hard blocked: no</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">$ iwconfig<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">lo no
wireless extensions.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">wlp9s0 IEEE
802.11 ESSID:off/any<br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">
Tx-Power=15 dBm
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Retry
short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%"> Power
Management:off</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">enp5s0 no
wireless extensions.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">wwp0s29f7u5i6 no
wireless extensions<br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">I started install WPA Supplicant. Receive warning password to be minimum 8 characters, which it is. 8 character password used to work on the intermittent wireless connection on Xubuntu 16.04 and Xubuntu 18.04.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Many thanks for your time.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%">Best regards</p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">-- </span><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">Karel P Coors</font><div><font size="2"><br><br></font><div><br></div><div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><img width="0" height="0" alt="" style="display:flex" src="https://mailtrack.io/trace/mail/7a0afe8bc946f7aee5f2bd8edd18d7fafdaacca2.png?u=5010848"></div>
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