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11-08-2016, 06:28 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2016
Posts: 1
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Wireless problems with every distro I try
Hi,
For some reason, every distro I have tried (elementary os,Linux mint, debian and now Ubuntu) have the same problem: When I want to connect to a wireless network with WLAN or WLAN enterprise security it will keep prompting me for the password and I can not connect. However, it works fine on the network on which I give when installing the distro.
As well as that, when I use ifconfig, I get no output of eth0 or wlan0..help?
Thanks
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11-08-2016, 08:22 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Mar 2008
Posts: 22,239
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Hello and welcome to LQ.
Maybe tell us how you made or installed these distros and to what (hard drive/usb flash?)
Some distro's don't use ifconfig and more are not using the old style naming. What does (might have to use sudo) ifconfig -a say or use ip command.
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11-08-2016, 08:48 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,727
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Also, what is the wireless chipset and the make/model of the computer?
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11-08-2016, 09:47 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Feb 2015
Location: USA
Distribution: Lubuntu 14.04, 22.04, Windows 8.1 and 10
Posts: 6,282
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fiacho
help?
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Hello and welcome to the forum 
To expand on frankbell's request, please open a terminal and see if your system will give you the results of the following commands. If it does, please post them all in their entirety...
Code:
lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2
If this is a laptop, please also post the results of...
Regards... |
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1 members found this post helpful.
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11-10-2016, 03:47 PM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2013
Posts: 19,872
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fiacho
When I want to connect to a wireless network with WLAN or WLAN enterprise security it will keep prompting me for the password and I can not connect.
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does it ask for your user password or for the wlan network's password?
and are you actually entering the correct password? |
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