I just got a brand new Dell XPS 13 laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. Everything works like it's supposed to, but doing an apt-get dist-upgrade
causes the wifi to stop working. At that point, I can still connect to the net by plugging my phone in and turning on tethering, so I know it's a problem with the wifi, and not networking in general. Restoring the system from the rescue partition fixes the problem.
Any ideas on what's happening? Or at least ideas on how to narrow down the search? I tried Dell's tech support, and they weren't very helpful.
- Model: XPS 13 9350 Developer Edition
- Ubuntu version: 14.04
- Kernel: 3.19.0-33-generic
sudo apt install linux-firmware
, and see if it fixes the problem. If not, postdmesg
output here.dmesg
should mention it in some way, then it would be nice to add in the answer.