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Armbroke

Member

Registered: 2025-07-10

Posts: 78

Wifi connect

HI all,
As you might suspect, I can't connect my q4os to wifi/internet.
Long story short, I made a scratch installation. When I then tried to run Desktop profiler the system found no wifi; I clicked the network icon and
It installed automatically, followed by the very long profiler installation. Looking good so far.
But then, trying to run Firefox there is no internet.....?
I use an external wifi adapter WUA-0614 which has worked flawlessly for a long time, as well as today as described above. Nothing was changed
after that. So what am I missing ?
I have used q4os for some time, and my experience is that most program installations are pretty straightforward.
Please put me on track again
Peter

seb3773

Member

From: France

Registered: 2023-11-01

Posts: 228

Re: Wifi connect

HI all,
As you might suspect, I can't connect my q4os to wifi/internet.
Long story short, I made a scratch installation. When I then tried to run Desktop profiler the system found no wifi; I clicked the network icon and
It installed automatically, followed by the very long profiler installation. Looking good so far.
But then, trying to run Firefox there is no internet.....?
I use an external wifi adapter WUA-0614 which has worked flawlessly for a long time, as well as today as described above. Nothing was changed
after that. So what am I missing ?
I have used q4os for some time, and my experience is that most program installations are pretty straightforward.
Please put me on track again
Peter

Not an easy one... :-/ Maybe the network management service didn't carry over your credentials or DNS settings after the profiler installation ?

It's possible that the system toggles a software switch to "Airplane Mode" if there was a problem during installation, so try: rfkill list
if wifi is soft blocked, try: rfkill unblock <wifi name>
-Try to restart network manager: sudo systemctl restart networkmanager

Something possible too, is that your wifi card use non-free firmware, and maybe it not have been fully initialized for the desktop environment after the profiler installation ? In this case, you can try:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install firmware-misc-nonfree

** of course, you will need  a connection to do that, can you connect with ethernet ?

My two cents..maybe Q4OS Team can propose something better

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q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 6,107

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Re: Wifi connect

We would recommend you to follow https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=4698 and post back the result.

Armbroke

Member

Registered: 2025-07-10

Posts: 78

Re: Wifi connect

Thanks SEB , will look into your suggestions, and of course report outcome.
What bugs me is that this was working fine until a couple of days ago until I was forced to reinstall it all.
Peter

hchiper

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2020-07-28

Posts: 788

Re: Wifi connect

@Armbroke
You posted the same post in the thread mentioned by q4osteam and I responded there.
But better to continue the discussion here.

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