feannag

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Wifi stopped showing in linux mint (kbin.social)

Yesterday night I had a problem with a usb port and the touch pad not working, I restarted the system a few times and switched back and forth with windows (which is installed on a different drive), they didn't work even there.After a few restarts the usbport and the touch pad came back to life, but the wifi stopped working. When...

feannag, (edited )

I’m not sure if this is exactly the same issue I had, but mine ended up being resolved by disabling fastboot on the Windows side. Near as I can figure when I “shutdown” from windows, fastboot prevented releasing control of the network adapter to Linux. Wifi would only work if I restarted from windows, or when fastboot got disabled.

feannag,

I think that’s the gist. But don’t worry - windows will boot .5 seconds faster…

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