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There has been frequent issues with Network Manager connecting and disconnecting. Many of them are related to the dhcp client the program is using. You can try and change it from the default dhcpcd to dhclient and see if that solves your problem.
Have a look at /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/00-dhcp-client.conf and comment out the dhcpcd line and uncomment the dhclient line. You might need to restart your Network Manager process (/etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager restart) or it could work on the next connection attempt.
The firmware gets updates. And if you have an early generation of the chipset, that could break it's functionality. My hp stream 11 that I got in Nov 2014 didn't have decent wireless firmware until July 2015. That plus the latest driver from github made networking rock solid without dongles.
Distribution: Slackware 15 64bit on Desktop Slackwarearm on Raspberry PI v1b
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I just went through this. I had to downgrade b43 and fwcutter to the version from 13.37. I have also found over the years that wicd works better than network manager.
when i was using my laptop with linux it was with ubuntu then i went to arch where they have a user repository (AUR) and they have a popular package there that I got use to. Ponce has a package broadcom-sta not sure if my inspiron requires it i cant rememeber in sbopkg
you could have someone phucking with your wifi connection
way too common on public hotspots
about the only thing you can do in this case is to spoof your mac address
this only works if the attack is ageist you and not your ap
it is ridiculous to not have rfkill the pkg be installed.
my wifi was being blocked by rfkill I just ran "rfkill unblock all"
and it worked
even though there is no rfkill package there is enough rfkill there to work with in an every thing install
my wifi was being blocked by rfkill I just ran "rfkill unblock all"
and it worked
even though there is no rfkill package there is enough rfkill there to work with in an every thing install
yep that is the ole' catch 22
I've complained about that --
No logic in that one.
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