<div dir="ltr"><div>Maybe my last email didn't get through, but I was having the exact same problem with my Lenovo Y500 laptop with the Centrino wi-fi card (n-2230, IIRC?). You only need to make sure that you've installed the Nvidia drivers and the wpa-supplicant file. I'm now able to run wi-fi in Ubuntu 18.10.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You can do the nvidia part from the Software & Updates app. For the wpa-supplicant, you can run:<br></div><div><pre><code>sudo apt install wpasupplicant<br><br><br><br><br><br></code></pre></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 15:38, Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Hmm, well, if you have 16.04 on a live stick, that would be an easy check. <br>Alternatively, you are welcome to grab one of them 6300 off me to have a go. Gratis.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Alas, I cannot make it to tonite's meet, but am in my Waterloo office(near UW) on Tues/Thurs for a couple of hours and you can get it then, or wait till the Dec meet and I bring it to you. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">2 night ago I was mucking around with Mint 19(based on Ubu 18.04) and had zero issues with an N-6205-equipped X201. I have not tried an N-6200 with Ubu 18.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_7466109432218333980gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:32 PM Nickle, Brian <<a href="mailto:brian@nickle.ca" target="_blank">brian@nickle.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">It is a Lenovo X201 thinkpad running an Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35). And honestly until 18.04 it was rock solid. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>It might be worth trying a different card I might also boot back into 16.04 just to verify that the hardware is working correctly and i'm not dealing with a failing card.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:15 PM Ron Singh <<a href="mailto:ronsingh149@gmail.com" target="_blank">ronsingh149@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Which Intel wrls card is it? The 1000, 6200, 6205, 6300? <br>I have found the 1000 to be a miserable card to work with and the 6300 to be sublime. The 6205 is quite reliable too, no break/make, no off to lala-land. <br><br>What laptop is it? I might just have some spare cards lying around that you are welcome to if it fits your laptop. <br>I have a whack of 6200/6205 for Thinkpads and a few of the 6300 ones I got from CN for less than 10 bucks each that you are welcome to.<br><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_7466109432218333980m_-2342932318227287228m_2797761062746979081gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron Singh<br><br></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:07 PM Nickle, Brian <<a href="mailto:brian@nickle.ca" target="_blank">brian@nickle.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="m_7466109432218333980m_-2342932318227287228m_2797761062746979081m_-9044159367169071921m_-1285582862048062556moz-cite-prefix">My Intel Centrino N WiFi card has been really crappy since 18.04 it will connect and then fall offline. I haven't found a stable solution yet but I haven't tried real hard. The issue has something to do with <b style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">iwlwifi</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"> module changes in the newer kernels it appears. I haven't tried any of the backports of this module I just keep updating the firmware package hoping to fix the issues.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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