Wifi is working! Reading some of the links in the replies on my former post it was suggested that powering off the system (instead of rebooting) and then booting again could resolve the problem. Although this sounded like magic to me I couldn't resist giving it a try. and it works! At least for now. Thanks for your replies. Peter
On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:23, Peter Lesterhuis peterlesterhuis@telfort.nl wrote:
Although this sounded like magic to me I couldn't resist giving it a try.
On a reboot the device may not be fully reset. Windows may have set modes on devices that breaks the linux driver.
When you do a cold boot, power off and back on, that cannot happen.
Barry
On Tue, 2024-11-05 at 23:23 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
Wifi is working! Reading some of the links in the replies on my former post it was suggested that powering off the system (instead of rebooting) and then booting again could resolve the problem. Although this sounded like magic to me I couldn't resist giving it a try. and it works! At least for now.
Even if you don't dual boot, devices sometimes get into a strange state (hibernation and suspending sometimes do this--not properly resetting as they wake up). A cold boot is a good thing to try when faced with hardware issues.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 6:42 PM Barry barry@barrys-emacs.org wrote:
On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:23, Peter Lesterhuis peterlesterhuis@telfort.nl
wrote:
Although this sounded like magic to me I couldn't resist giving it a try.
On a reboot the device may not be fully reset. Windows may have set modes on devices that breaks the linux driver.
When you do a cold boot, power off and back on, that cannot happen.
Many systems intended for use by large enterprises do load minimal network drivers to support PXE netboot and Wake-on-(Wired-)Lan so IT can push updates during off hours. In some cases vendor firmware updates are needed to avoid breaking linux, or you may be able to disable PXE.
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