I have been using Ubuntu for over 10 years and have never seen anything like this... I have zero connectivity via wifi, ethernet, usb tether, wifi tether, direct cable to my modem, nothing...
NOTE: The Internet icons show my machine connect to wifi and ethernet, but I am not getting any transfer.
Then, I go to my trusty "Timeshift" to undo my changes that caused the problem and Timeshift does not fix the problem.
Confused.
How I made this problem: My wifi was slow so I tried two possible solutions that I found on the Its FOSS website:
https://itsfoss.com/speed-up-slow-wifi-connection-ubuntu/
(Specifically solution 2 and solution 3)
Attempted Solution 2
sudo rmmod iwlwifi
sudo modprobe iwlwifi 11n_disable=1
Attempted Solution 3:
sudo gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf
This will open the configuration file in gedit so that you could edit
it easily in GUI. You can also use nano instead of gedit if you want
to use the terminal. In here, look for the following line:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
If you find this file, replace it with the following line:
hosts: files dns
Attempted 3, 2nd above was easy to revert...however, I think the sudo rmmod iwlwifi
is at the core of my troubles... itsfoss mention that disabling 802.11n also disable
can anyone tell me how to fix this, while having ZERO ability to connect to the web at all?
the output of lshw -C network
is:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650i 160MHz Wireless Network Adapter (201NGW)
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 14.3
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.3
logical name: wlp0s20f3
version: 30
serial: 34:cf:f6:61:c0:38
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.4.0-42-generic firmware=48.4fa0041f.0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: iomemory:600-5ff irq:16 memory:6013104000-6013107fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: enp3s0
version: 15
serial: b4:a9:fc:b0:b0:d1
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 duplex=full firmware=rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 ip=192.168.0.11 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:4000(size=256) memory:51104000-51104fff memory:51100000-51103fff