Wifi disabled and applet not responding after waking from sleep in Trisquel 8 Mini on Thinkpad X60.

3 respuestas [Último envío]
northernarcher
Desconectado/a
se unió: 12/24/2014

I have a fresh install of the latest Trisquel 8 Mini on my thinkpad X60. Pretty much everything is great except that wifi does not work at all after waking from sleep.
I can use wifi for hours on end while it's awake with no issues. But if I close the laptop and open it again I get a notification that wifi is disconnected, and it never reconnects. If I click on the wifi applet to open it it says that wifi is disabled and does not show any of the nearby wifi networks. The option to turn it back on is greyed out. Flipping the hardware switch repeatedly does not reset things. Nothing fixes it except a total reboot.

This is a fresh install of Trisquel 8 Mini, so I really don't know what to do here. Could anyone help me please?

Magic Banana

I am a member!

I am a translator!

Desconectado/a
se unió: 07/24/2010

Does the following command (to execute in a terminal) bring back your Wifi connection?
$ systemctl restart NetworkManager

northernarcher
Desconectado/a
se unió: 12/24/2014

Yes, that does work. It asks for my password, I enter it and it starts working again. But why does it do this on a fresh install? I obviously don't think anyone should need to open a terminal, type this command, type their password, and hit enter every time they open their laptop.

Magic Banana

I am a member!

I am a translator!

Desconectado/a
se unió: 07/24/2010

The command restarts NetworkManager. For some reason, NetworkManager does not properly awake on your system. Since, the kernel is responsible for the suspend function, you could try updating it. Installing the package "linux-image-generic-hwe-8.0" (in Trisquel's repository) will give you version 4.15. You can have version 4.19 or even 5.1 following the instructions on https://jxself.org/linux-libre/