![]() Reboot and again show us the result of: dmesg | grep wl Please open a terminal and do: sudo apt purge backport-iwlwifi-dkms Yours is not an Intel wireless device, supported by the driver iwlwifi, it is a Broadcom device supported by wl. Probable explanation: Both the Intel driver iwlwifi and the Broadcom driver wl use the helper module cfg80211. This can be seen in modinfo iwlwifi and modinfo wl. I believe that the backports package installs a modified cfg80211 that doesn’t work properly with wl, the Broadcom driver. ![]() Removing, by purge, the Intel driver, restores the default cfg80211 and wl works again. Many new Ubuntu users with wireless issues prowl the various forums and mistakenly install the incorrect driver for their device. In most cases, aside from simply wasting time and space on the harddrive or SSD, it does no harm. In this case, it prevented the correct driver from working.
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