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Home wifi working but wifi networks interface stuck in searching (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by biofaust@lemmy.world to c/ubuntu@discuss.tchncs.de

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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?

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[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not all that good with this sort of stuff, but the first thing I would try would be to boot it with another distro just to see if it can find networks that way.

How did you connect for the first time if it can't find networks?

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Same way I did now to connect to my office wifi: manually added the network to the netplan yaml file. Not really the way I would like to have to do this in the long run.

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

That seems unusual. The Ubuntu laptop I use for imaging laptops can just connect to the wifi with the gui.

Try booting up off of the usb you made for Ubuntu and see if you can just connect with the gui without installing.

If that doesn’t work I would make a boot usb of another distro and just try to join the wifi without installing it.

The first one checks to see if you configured something funkily. The second checks to see if the distro is the issue.