I was hoping that the community could help me with a problem that has developed overnight on my Dell Precision 5630 laptop which is running Kubuntu 18.04 LTS. Everything had been running fine since Jan 2016 including when I shut down at around 11pm last night but when I booted up this morning at 8am I can no longer connect to any WiFi network. The network connections finds all of the networks and tries to connect but it just sits on the waiting for authentication. I've tried a couple of different networks as well as tethering to my phone but that is not working either. My phone connects to the wifi and I have removed the connection and entered in the password again to no avail.
Ethernet is working on the same network.
When I run a grep wlp I receive the output
[ 6.125238] iwlwifi 0000:3b:00.0 wlp59s0: renamed from wlan0 [ 7.026821] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 7.259063] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 7.356476] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 60.002940] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 92.001471] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 429.376066] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 567.043107] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 1537.405908] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 1537.631627] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 1537.769158] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 1591.677157] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 1802.318383] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 2238.851066] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 2357.053529] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 2357.294464] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 2357.493334] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 2445.899175] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 2567.617637] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 3415.079756] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready [ 3543.051774] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready
Tailing /var/log/syslog whilst trying to connect shows
Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6293] device (wlp59s0): Activation: starting connection 'HomeWifi' (7e56af65-63c3-4539-b088-aaa1eb2abbff) Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6295] audit: op="connection-activate" uuid="7e56af65-63c3-4539-b088-aaa1eb2abbff" name="HomeWifi" pid=2374 uid=1000 result="success" Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6298] device (wlp59s0): state change: disconnected -> prepare (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6300] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTING Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6309] device (wlp59s0): state change: prepare -> config (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6317] device (wlp59s0): Activation: (wifi) access point 'HomeWifi' has security, but secrets are required. Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6317] device (wlp59s0): state change: config -> need-auth (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Dec 6 08:49:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622152.6320] sup-iface[0x5604c8835240,wlp59s0]: wps: type pbc start... Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 wpa_supplicant[1022]: wlp59s0: WPS-TIMEOUT Requested operation timed out Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622272.6390] device (wlp59s0): No agents were available for this request. Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622272.6391] device (wlp59s0): state change: need-auth -> failed (reason 'no-secrets', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622272.6393] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_LOCAL Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622272.6396] device (wlp59s0): Activation: failed for connection 'HomeWifi' Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 NetworkManager[1005]: [1575622272.6400] device (wlp59s0): state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none', sys-iface-state: 'managed') Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 kernel: [ 567.043107] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlp59s0: link is not ready Dec 6 08:51:12 steve-Precision-5530 wpa_supplicant[1022]: wlp59s0: Reject scan trigger since one is already pending
Here are the last two entries from the /var/log/apt/history.log file from when I last ran updates, though the wireless adapter was working fine for another 4-5 hours aferwards
Start-Date: 2019-12-05 08:01:35 Commandline: apt-get upgrade -y Requested-By: steve (1000) Upgrade: unattended-upgrades:amd64 (1.1ubuntu1.18.04.12, 1.1ubuntu1.18.04.13) End-Date: 2019-12-05 08:01:37 Start-Date: 2019-12-05 17:44:55 Commandline: apt-get upgrade -y Requested-By: steve (1000) Upgrade: grub-common:amd64 (2.02-2ubuntu8.13, 2.02-2ubuntu8.14), grub2-common:amd64 (2.02-2ubuntu8.13, 2.02-2ubuntu8.14), grub-pc:amd64 (2.02-2ubuntu8.13, 2.02-2ubuntu8.14), grub-pc-bin:amd64 (2.02-2ubuntu8.13, 2.02-2ubuntu8.14), grub-efi-amd64-bin:amd64 (2.02-2ubuntu8.13, 2.02-2ubuntu8.14), grub-efi-amd64-signed:amd64 (1.93.14+2.02-2ubuntu8.13, 1.93.15+2.02-2ubuntu8.14)
# nmcli device status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION enxc8f75098f85a ethernet connected Wired connection 2 docker_gwbridge bridge connected docker_gwbridge docker0 bridge connected docker0 wlp59s0 wifi disconnected -- enx9cebe868d445 ethernet unavailable -- vethb2ae4b9 ethernet unmanaged -- lo loopback unmanaged --
I then try to connect and can see that the state is changing
# nmcli device status DEVICE TYPE STATE CONNECTION enxc8f75098f85a ethernet connected Wired connection 2 docker_gwbridge bridge connected docker_gwbridge docker0 bridge connected docker0 wlp59s0 wifi connecting (need authentication) HomeWifi enx9cebe868d445 ethernet unavailable -- vethb2ae4b9 ethernet unmanaged -- lo loopback unmanaged --
But then it just times out.
The network adapter is a Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260
# lspci | grep -i network 3b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless-AC 9260 (rev 29)
I'm a bit lost as to what could be the cause and what to try next.
If I look at the network services they are currently in this state
systemctl --all | grep -i network networkd-dispatcher.service loaded active running Dispatcher daemon for systemd-networkd ● NetworkManager-wait-online.service loaded failed failed Network Manager Wait Online NetworkManager.service loaded active running Network Manager systemd-networkd.service loaded inactive dead Network Service systemd-resolved.service loaded active running Network Name Resolution systemd-timesyncd.service loaded active running Network Time Synchronization network-online.target loaded active active Network is Online network-pre.target loaded inactive dead Network (Pre) network.target loaded active active Network nss-lookup.target loaded active active Host and Network Name Lookups
Version Information * Plasma Version: 5.12.9 * KDW Framework Version 5.44.0 * Qt Version: 5.9.5 * Kernel Version: 4.15.0-72-generic
1 Answer
I've found the answer to my own question. Simply run
sudo nmcli dev wifi connect <wifi ssid> password <password>Then it will work including after restarts.
