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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 06:36:14PM +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote: > My daughter rang me to say that her wifi was not working. Since she > lives some miles away I tried to sort it over the phone, but to no > avail. > > I, my wife and my daughter each have a laptop running Xubuntu 14.04 > (LTS) which I look after. My computer is linked directly to the router > by cable so I am not so knowledgeable about wifi. If there is a problem > with the wife's computer I just have to go into the room where it is > setup. Not so easy with daughter's machine. > > I have asked her to bring the laptop over in a day or two so that I > can try to sort it out. Meanwhile I am wondering what to look for. I > will check first if the machine will connect to the wifi here. If so I > will know that it is a problem with her wifi at home. If not it will be > something with the laptop itself. > > So I am wondering where to look next. Can the wifi system in the > laptop just fail for some reason? I have never had any problems before, > it has always 'just worked'. Is it easy to restart the wifi program? > Would that be the way to go? > > Any help or suggestions gratefully received, > From bitter experience: make sure she has not turned wifi off -- Henry Communication not signed with an original manual signature or an appropriately verified digital signature is not binding. Mon 25 Jan 19:03:57 GMT 2016 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq