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What does 'WWAN-HW missing' mean?

ro flag

I am trying to find a solution to my "wifi-disabled" problem... I've been googling and reading and found this command:

nmcli general
STATE      CONNECTIVITY  WIFI-HW  WIFI      WWAN-HW  WWAN    
connected  full          enabled  disabled  missing  enable

What is "missing", what is WWAN-HM?

Esther avatar
es flag
WWAN-HW = Wireless WAN Hardware (= cellular modem)
Jeremy31 avatar
ke flag
What about results for `rfkill list all`
José Rojas avatar
ro flag
```rfkill list all 0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 1: sony-bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no```
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es flag

WWAN-HW is "Wireless WAN Hardware", and it refers to a physical cellular modem used to connect to cellular networks. missing indicates that such a piece of physical hardware is not connected to the computer at all, even though it is enabled in software (which only becomes relevant if you connect such a device later).

José Rojas avatar
ro flag
Thank you... I need to find a way to fix this issue that is preventing my laptop from enabling wifi, ever since I upgraded from 22.04 to 22.10 (Xubuntu) What keeps me thinking about this issue is that it's been some days with this problem, and there's been a couple of them when everything would work (wifi enabled and connected, and also bluetooth). So I don't understand why it is disabled most of the times but not all of the times.
Esther avatar
es flag
If you have a question about fixing your WiFi, that is a different question altogether, so you can [ask a new question](https://askubuntu.com/questions/ask) with all the details and maybe someone can help.
José Rojas avatar
ro flag
I have already asked twice.
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