cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44456705

I am in the very strange situation, since I installed Ubuntu, in which my laptop is connecting to the wifi, but if I open the wifi settings page it stays on “searching for networks” forever. Since I am planning to use this laptop at a conference where I would need a connection, I would like to solve this somehow.

I have used the “wireless-info” tool and the pastebin can be found here .

Only things I noticed are the Intel AX201 controller that in other forums is said to not work at all (not my case), and the fact that my home network connection is defined by a networkd yaml, as opposed to the others (my parent’s house) that are defined by a NetworkManager yaml.

I am a beginner so these are all just guesses from me.

Is there a fix or even a separate software I can use to manage my connections, like adding a new one without having to write myself a new yaml file?

  • HuudaHarkiten@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    3 days ago

    Have you tried if it can find other networks that you know are working? For example, use your phone’s hotspot thing to creat a wifi, see if Ubuntu finds that, if it does, make sure the connection works. It could be that there’s just no other networks in range. Though if you live in a apartment complext that would be weird indeed.

    • biofaust@lemmy.worldOP
      0·
      3 days ago

      In the GUI, it doesn’t find anything. The icon keeps rotating and nothing more. If I set a connection with a known SSID and password in the 01-netconf.yml file it connects. Problem is that it would not work with a web-based authentication, for example. Also, what I set up in the yml file does not appear under Saved Networks in the GUI.