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Re: Wifi won't connect in debian

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On 23/10/20 5:16 am, Simon Wooding wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a Lenovo Thinkpad which I used to run Windows on. A few days ago
> I installed Debian 10.6.0 (first as dual-boot to make sure I could
> transfer everything, later deleting the Windows partition). I had to
> install non-free firmware to get wifi working during install, but I
> found the required drivers on Intel's website and everything went
> smoothly from there. Fast forward three days problem free and when I
> booted up this morning I had lost some of the graphical features of my
> desktop environment MATE (the top/bottom panels, my chosen theme, and a
> number of keyboard shortcuts no longer worked) and I couldn't connect to
> the internet. I don't know if these problems are related, but I can't
> fix the desktop environment without internet access so it's somewhat moot.
> Clarifications on the internet problems:
> It's not my provider, that's been working fine all day on other devices
> It's not a hardware fault; while I was trying out stuff to fix it I
> tried using my boot-repair live usb to see if the hard drive was the
> problem, and while in that mode connecting to the internet was easy and
> worked fine.
> I'm not sure what difference using ethernet would make as I can't figure
> out how to connect using that either but I do have access to an ethernet
> port if needed.
> I have tried a number of suggested solutions online, but none have
> worked and I couldn't try a lot of them because they required packages I
> didn't have and couldn't install offline.
>
> I need wifi access back fairly promptly as I am a university student
> studying remotely, so any help is thoroughly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon


Simon

The loss of Mate toolbars & shortcuts suggests to me that Mate started
clean instead of from the /home/user files you had before reboot; and
with them your wifi settings. Is /home on a separate partition?  If so,
did that partition mount properly?

Have you lost any other config type files following reboot?

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Keith Bainbridge

ke1thozgroups@gmx.com

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Wifi won't connect in debian Simon Wooding <glasfryn27@gmail.com> - 2020-10-22 20:40 +0200
  Re: Wifi won't connect in debian Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2020-10-22 21:20 +0200
  Re: Wifi won't connect in debian Keith Bainbridge <ke1thozgroups@gmx.com> - 2020-10-23 01:00 +0200

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