I installed a dual-boot of Ubuntu 20.04 alongside Windows 10 on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 4.
Router: ASUS RT-AC68U firmware 3.0.0.4.386_45987 (Mesh network with one router and one node)
I can connect to my Guest WiFi network (No NAS, printer, or device access), but cannot connect to my primary Home Network.
nmcli d wifi connect HomeNetwork5G password <Home network password>
(as well as HomeNetwork24G) gets:
Error: Connection activation failed: (53) The Wi-Fi network could not be found.
nmcli d wifi connect GuestNetwork password <Guest network password>
gets:
Device 'wlp4s0' successfully activated with 'some-converted-guestnetwork-password'.
nmcli d wifi list
gets:
IN-USE BSSID SSID MODE CHAN RATE >
04:D9:F5:77:FA:99 HomeNetwork24G Infra 11 195 M>
04:D9:F5:77:FA:9C HomeNetwork5G Infra 153 195 M>
* 62:45:B1:C1:D0:DC GuestNetwork Infra 11 195 M>
All three are WPA1 WPA2
lspci
gets:
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-LM (rev 21)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 (rev 3a)
sudo lshw -c network
gets:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Wireless 8260
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlp4s0
version: 3a
serial: e4:b3:18:7b:3b:99
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.11.0-43-generic firmware=36.77d01142.0 8000C-36.ucode latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:135 memory:f1100000-f1101fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Ethernet Connection I219-LM
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.6
bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.6
logical name: enp0s31f6
version: 21
serial: 54:ee:75:a0:55:1e
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=5.11.0-43-generic firmware=0.13-4 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:124 memory:f1300000-f131ffff
rfkill list
gets:
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Things I have tried.
Password error mitigation (multiple times):
- Copying the password from a source that works on another device
- Manually typing the password
- Having another person type the password to reduce operator error risk
Windows dual-boot mitigation:
- Uninstalled Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 and drivers from Windows 10
- Turned off all WoL options in Lenovo BIOS
- Turned off Windows 10 "Quick Start"
- Shutdown Windows 10 via cmd with
shutdown /s /f /t 0
Asus Router mitigation:
- Checked for most up-to-date Firmware
- Rebooted multiple times
- Unplugged all AiMesh nodes and rebooted main router trying one router only
- Tried switching the networks to WPA2 only
I feel like I have searched this to death but every answer seems to be over six years old and involve ifconfig
which has been deprecated as I understand. I am dead out of ideas and feel like I've hit bedrock.