After I upgraded a PC with 18.04 Ubuntu to 20.04 my wifi won’t work. After some troubleshooting, I have found that if I have an ethernet cable plugged into the network the wifi says it can’t find an adapter, but if you unplug the network cable the wifi comes on and you can pick any SSID that is list…

I can only assume that there is an adapter priority as a feature. Meaning, if you plug in the Ethernet cable, the priorized adapter is the Ethernet adapter (which is just logical and totally reasonable). There is absolutely no reason to use the WiFi if you have a working internet connection over Eth…

I just wanted to make sure there isn’t something wrong and it was intended to be this way. I like the idea but my users are going to ask about why they don’t have wifi at the same time.

I think the problem is solved by explaining that an internet connection over cable will always be better than a connection over wave signals.

There seems to be a problem with Ubuntu and Wifi sometimes. My own story. I D/L’ed both Ubuntu and Xubuntu 20.04 and installed both on the same laptop. Ubuntu worked fine with Wifi, but Xubuntu would only work with the Ethernet cable. I could not get the Wifi to work. A week / 10 days later, I D/L a…

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