I did already post this question yesterday, but since I got no replies, I'm asking it again. Really hoping, you guys would be able to help me.
I'm a new Ubuntu user and have been using it just for the past 2 days. I saw that my wifi strength is much superior in windows than in Ubuntu. So, I thought of updating the wireless driver in Ubuntu.
I am having a problem that my network is disabled after boot. I'm currently running dual boot with Windows 8.1.
Here's the output of sudo lshw -C network
:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: enp8s0
version: 07
serial: 38:63:bb:72:97:97
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:41 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:b5600000-b5600fff memory:b5400000-b5403fff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 00
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
resources: irq:16 memory:b5510000-b551ffff
After I boot, I need to run these 2 commands:
sudo ifconfig eno1 up
sudo service network-manager restart
It's really frustrating, that I need to run these 2 commands, everytime I boot my laptop. It started happening after I installed the rt3290 drivers as mentioned here https://askubuntu.com/a/593018/692756
After the commands, here's the output of sudo lshw -C network
:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: enp8s0
version: 07
serial: 38:63:bb:72:97:97
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:41 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:b5600000-b5600fff memory:b5400000-b5403fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 00
serial: c0:38:96:6e:ae:d7
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN ip=192.168.225.110 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
resources: irq:16 memory:b5510000-b551ffff
Here's the output of iwconfig
:
lo no wireless extensions.
eno1 Ralink STA ESSID:"BAZINGA" Nickname:"RT3290STA"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.422 GHz Access Point: 18:A6:F7:EA:2C:64
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-52 dBm Noise level:-84 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
enp8s0 no wireless extensions.
The power management is not being shown, but I'm sure it's disabled, because the value of wifi.powersave = 2
in my /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf
file.
rfkill unblock all
doesn't do anything. It returned a blank output. I needed to enable my interfaceeno1
and then restart network-manager.