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rated 0 times [  3] [ 0]  / answers: 1 / hits: 11624  / 2 Years ago, sat, september 3, 2022, 6:41:57

This has been asked a few times already, but no solution that I've found has helped. I've tried every solution that I feel comfortable using.



I have a Dell XPS Developer Edition with Ubuntu 16.04 and it connects to every wireless network I connect to, except my home wifi. I've connected with no issue to tens of other networks via wireless, but I can't at home.



My home wifi has no problem connecting to other 16.04 laptops, including ones with the same wireless card (not sure if same driver).



Output of sudo lshw -c network:



  *-network               
description: Wireless interface
product: QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:3a:00.0
logical name: wlp58s0
version: 32
serial: 9c:b6:d0:dc:d2:a7
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=4.4.0-93-generic firmware=WLAN.RM.2.0-00180-QCARMSWPZ-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:135 memory:dc000000-dc1fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: enx9cebe851ff48
serial: 9c:eb:e8:51:ff:48
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=cdc_ncm driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=CDC NCM ip=192.168.1.116 link=yes multicast=yes


I've seen lots of answers involving modprobe but I'm not familiar with that, and after doing a bit of research, it doesn't seem like something I want to do all willy nilly (after only seeing it on places in relation to other adapters on other OS'). If someone posted the same thing here, knowing what hardware I had, I'd give it a try.






EDIT 1



Output of lspci -knn | grep Net -A3; rfkill list



3a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [168c:003e] (rev 32)
Subsystem: Bigfoot Networks, Inc. QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [1a56:1535]
Kernel driver in use: ath10k_pci
Kernel modules: ath10k_pci
3b:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS525A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:525a] (rev 01)
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

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I finally found what was causing the issue for this.



I'm not 100% sure why it worked since I didn't notice the same issue as the individual who asked this question, but it worked for me.



Edit the NetworkManager.conf file



vim /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf


and disable random MAC addressing by adding these lines to the bottom of the file:



[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no


Then, save the file, and restart the network-manager



sudo service network-manager restart


This worked for me.


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