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WiFi is a networking technology permitting the exchange of information through wireless (radio) connections.

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On some of my server systems (Debian trixie), wifi power saving causes "laggy" terminal response on the client side of the SSH connection. By "laggy" I mean that there is an ...
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I've a problem with kernel versions starting from version 6.16. it was working in kernel 6.15. In kernel 6.15, when I put my laptop to sleep and resume from it, the Wi-Fi does not resume. So I am no ...
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I've read iwd has support to WiFi-Direct (P2P-GO, P2P-Device). But I've not found any documentation about how to implement it by using its client tool iwctl. Is it possible doing that? If so, how? ...
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I want my Linux laptop to connect to ethernet automatically when the ethernet cable is plugged in. Right now, if the laptop is connected to wifi, it will stay connected to wifi even after the ethernet ...
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Introduction I've just installed Debian 13 using the network installer over a WiFi USB dongle (https://a.co/d/ddrTljz). After booting into the OS, and trying to manage the WiFi adapter (that I used to ...
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I have to do a discover the available wifi networks by command line. I know the followed command nmcli to list the wifi: > nmcli dev wifi list | less which, on my Linux system, gives an output of ...
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I have a Raspberry Pi 4 installed. OS: Debian 12 Bookworm Network Adapter: wlan0 I have installed Pi-Hole and would like to use it with my other devices. I will not be using DHCP. I have only changed ...
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I have been having trouble connecting to this Wifi router, which is the only one available. When I do connect, I can access ipv6 but NOT ipv4. I have tried disabling and enabling ipv6 and restarting ...
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When we travel with a laptop, we often find ourselves in an airport, train station, or other establishment which offers free Wirless network access. But - these often require, upon connection, ...
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My distro doesn't have a package for drivers for Intel's 7265, so I cloned Intel's backports repo for iwlwifi, and grabbed the firmware blob iwlwifi-7265D-29.ucode. iwlwifi-7265D-29.ucode gets dropped ...
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I've got a new machine with an MSI MAG Z790 Tomohawk Max Wifi (MS-7E25) motherboard running Mint 22.1 (on kernel 6.14.0-29-generic), which has a Qualcomm WCN785x Wi-Fi 7 network card built in. lspci ...
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I am using GNOME 46 desktop environment and Network Manager for handling network (at least I think I am). After trying to fix WiFi not connecting automatically, I stumbled upon another issue: When I ...
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I have a 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint Xia based on Ubuntu 24.04. I checked the adapter - 14e4:43a0 - and confirmed via this guide to install bcmwl-kernel-source. I downloaded the driver on another ...
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The built-in WiFi adapter on my old MacMini does not handle weak signals very well resulting in a slow connection. Therefor I'm using a USB adapter instead. After restarting the computer the output ...
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After a fresh installation of Debian 13 my next task was to download, build and install the driver rtl8852au* for my USB WiFi adapter. A driver for this adapter is unfortunately not included in the ...
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While checking the regulatory rules reported by "iw reg get" after setting my country code, I see that certain channels in the 5 GHz band are not allowed to be used if the equipment is ...
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I am attempting to connect to my University's WIFI on Mobian but am getting the following error: The access point /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/AccessPoint/10 was not in the scan list Are there any ...
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There's no wireless interface show in the network icon and none in when I type 'nmcli device' running dmesg shows [130854.349171] mt7921e 0000:05:00.0: probe with driver mt7921e failed with error -22 ...
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Issue Summary: Multiple worldwide ThinkPad models with WCN6855 hw2.1 fail to properly handle regulatory domain settings, defaulting to incorrect country codes and causing regulatory compliance issues ...
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I am building an embedded device that runs Linux (Armbian) and receives a steady stream of UDP data. It has both Ethernet and WiFi connectivity. Ethernet works fine, however when using WiFi, the data ...
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I have a computer running Debian 12 (stable) that I want to connect wirelessly to the internet. The computer has a builtin WiFi adapter which uses the firmware brcmfmac4330 and is available in the ...
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I see a non-existent WiFi network, named "HP84C8DA". In the past I had a similar issue on an HP laptop, appearing after I tried creating "ad hoc network" on Windows. But now I ...
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I have an old MacMini from 2009 running Debian 12 (stable). Its built-in WiFi adapter seems to be quite slow since I get around 5 Mbit/s compared to 50 Mbit/s with a newer laptop (in the same location)...
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When trying to suspend my laptop (HP Elitebook X G1a) with systemctl suspend or closing the lid it turns off the screen and back on again a few times before giving up. I'm using NixOS with a 6.12.32 ...
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I have ThinkPad 14s gen 6 with Qualcomm® Wi-Fi® 7 NCM825, 802.11be 2x2 + BT5.3. In after last boot my system lost ability to register any wifi device. I think it can correlate to recent change in arch ...
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Previously I was using wpad-openssl, with this line in my wpa_supplicant.conf, openssl_ciphers=DEFAULT@SECLEVEL=0 Now I want to move to mbedtls, how do I port that line? Without it I'm getting MTLS: ...
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I would like to connect the LYLYGO T-Keyboard to my FreeBSD system (14.2) using a BT dongle. To be honest I tried two different kind of dongle,these ones : a) ugen1.6: <Broadcom Corp BCM20702A0> ...
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My wifi disappeared and it isn't showing up on my PC Card 0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc WCN785x Wi-Fi 7(802.11be) 320MHz 2x2 [FastConnect 7800] [17cb:1107] (rev 01) ...
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I have this WiFi module and want to set it up as an WiFi 5G AP. I can set it up as an AP in 2.4G by using hostapd.service, so it works for 2.4G. However, I want to set the AP using 5G, but it fails. I ...
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I use Lightburn app to control CNC. The CNC controller has WIFI but the Lighburn can work only trough serial ports. So I found that I need to use socat to link cnc server from wifi to serial port. ...
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I am attempting to communicate with devices on my LAN via the internet. I have purchased a static IP for my router. When I log in to my router, the IP address displayed on the router GUI matches the ...
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I'm having trouble getting WiFi working on Pop!_OS 22.04 with a Realtek RTL8822CE card. It worked fine until recently but now: WiFi randomly disconnects Sometimes the WiFi option disappears from ...
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I have a 2014 macbook air on which I have installed Xubuntu using a boot usb. I have no wifi connection, and the problem seems to be related to the broadcom driver. I download the deb files on my ...
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Installed Fedora 41 (Gnome) on an old Sony Vaio Tap 11. Almost everything works out of the box, more or less. Clicking/releasing the mouse buttons does not work. Tapping on the touchpad does not work ...
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When I create a wlan0 interface and attempt to scan on it, I obtain a MCE. bwn0: ucode fw: ucode16_mimo bwn_v4_ucode16_mimo: could not load firmware image, error 2 bwn0: the fw file(...
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I'm using Pop Os since a couple of months with a wifi PCI card and two weeks ago, the wifi stopped working. It disapeared from the system settings. I've tried a lot of things since then but nothing ...
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I couldn't connect to my Bluetooth keyboard, with the following error message: [ 186.859882] Bluetooth: Unexpected continuation frame (len 11) [ 189.410011] Bluetooth: hci0: unexpected SMP command ...
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I'm running Linux 21.3 on a HP Pavilion. If lose wifi connection due to poor signal to my NowTV Model NR801 router, I'm unable to reconnect to any network (including wired) without rebooting my ...
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I have a problem with reaching linux hosts through my home network, and I'd be glad for someone to point me in the right direction. I have a main wifi and wired router running DHCP. All IP addresses ...
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I have installed Alpine Linux on my DC ROMA Laptop II successfully and managed since then to get the password to work too. I am piggybacking off of the kernel (and boot stuff) provided by ...
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I'm using a Framework Laptop 13 with Fedora 41 and an ARM mainboard. When the machine is on battery power, not plugged in, the WiFi connection drops every 5 minutes exactly (or very close). The ...
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I'm hosting a hotspot from my PC, which has a wired internet connection and a wifi adapter. The OS is Fedora 40, using Network Manager and wpa_supplicant. I have 3 wifi devices which are able to ...
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OS: Ubuntu 24.04 Kernel: 6.11.0-17-generic CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor I have a TP-Link TX20U plus that is able to detect my network after I have loaded it with the driver taken from https:/...
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I got a Wifi7 card running on Debian per my Q&A, the card is based on Intel's BE200NGW chip. Despite Multi Link Operation being enabled on the Wifi7 router, the Debian machine running kernel 6.12....
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I have an old laptop with Xubuntu 12.04 on it. Runs great except the Wi-Fi. I can run Network Manager, and it shows a list of Wi-Fi networks nearby. Mine is LilaCon_5471_guest1. It's on WPA2 Security....
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How can I fix issues with the QCA9377 802.11ac rev31 network adapter in Kali Linux 2025.1 (kali-rolling), such as WiFi not connecting, wlan0 or wlan1 not showing up, or errors like "Device not ...
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I have installed Kali like usual OS, in the process of installation didn't get any problems, I've connected to my wifi. But after install Kali, I can't to view list of the SSIDs by command nmcli ...
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Recently after an upgrade to Debian Bookworm, my Wireless interface disappeared. i.e ip a shows only eth0 and lo I have been running the same hardware setup for about a year with the same Bookworm ...
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I'm on a WiFi network where it is necessary to skip certificate checking, and connect to network foo as username bar with password baz. What is the Solaris 11.4 invocation to connect to the network, ...
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I am attempting to passthrough a WiFi dongle (USR5423 802.11bg Wireless Adapter [ZyDAS ZD1211B]) to a VM running Debian 12 running under QEMU/KVM. I need the device passed through to the VM for a ...
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