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Hi everyone, I don't know if this is the right place for this but I know next to nothing about Linux (I just bought one at a thrift store with no prior knowledge of it) and am getting pretty frustrated with this issue.
Every time I enter the password for my home wifi, it disconnects and says "Passwords were required but not provided." It worked earlier for me on an open network, but no matter how many times I reboot my laptop or enter my password it won't connect. Can anyone shed any light on this issue for me?
Distribution: Currently: OpenMandriva. Previously: openSUSE, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, among others over the years.
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Originally Posted by Silverhood
Hi everyone, I don't know if this is the right place for this but I know next to nothing about Linux (I just bought one at a thrift store with no prior knowledge of it) and am getting pretty frustrated with this issue.
Every time I enter the password for my home wifi, it disconnects and says "Passwords were required but not provided." It worked earlier for me on an open network, but no matter how many times I reboot my laptop or enter my password it won't connect. Can anyone shed any light on this issue for me?
Can you try and run the following command, at a terminal window:
Code:
lspci -nnk | grep net -A2
Which Linux distribution are you using?
The fact you can connect to an 'open network' seems like it could be a clue to me.
Thanks for the welcome, I've just gone into my network settings in the control panel. I believe I'm using deepin if that helps (sorry, like I said I know really nothing about this thing). There's another laptop along with cell phones and video game consoles in my household that can connect without issue
I did this (it said a bunch of things I don't understand lol) but it didn't affect my issue one way or another
It wasn't supposed to, it's a display command to give us info to help you. Post the output here - the terminal should have copy-paste commands in a menu, but I've never used Deepin. If not, select the output with a mouse and use <Ctrl>-<Shift>-c to copy it to the clipboard, then paste it here.
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