OK. It seems that your wifi is configured but is at sleep. This is because your wireless card is switched off externally.
You need to type some commands in terminal. If you have installed GUI, then open the terminal by pressing ctrl+alt+T
and follow the steps below. And if not, skip this terminal process and type directly.
In all the steps, skip "{ }" these braces and replace it with the parameter specified inside it.
Steps:-
Note: The "interface_name" in above command have to be replaced with the name of wireless card which your system has. To get the name of the interface type iwconfig
and hit enter. In my case the name of the interface is "wlo1". It will be something similar like that.
- In some cases, still the wifi will be off. In that case press the wifi button on keyboard again.
Your Wifi will be in active state.
To connect to your WIFI network, follow these steps:
- Type
ifconfig {interface_name}
and press Enter.
- Type
iwconfig {interface_name} essid {name_of_the_WIFI_network} key {password_of_WIFI}
and press Enter. If your wireless network does not require a security key, skip the key. If you see an error with respect to the key, then remove the password of your WIFI and skip the key.
ifconfig -a
. Please provide full version (i.e., 16.04 or 16.10, the latter is already available in daily build for instance).lspci
. Since there have been problems with Broadcom device in Linux distros.