Wifi doesn't auto connect on startup

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Wifi doesn't auto connect on startup

Post by Abyss333 »

Hello!

I have a weird problem with my wifi adapter. It seem that the apadter more or less resets itself an iterates the name (like wlan0, wlan1, wlan2...) on every startup. Now it is at wlan18.
As a result, saved connections won't be connected to at all and i have to manually connect every time.

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$ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py 
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
      ==> PCI ID = 10ec:818b
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan18    IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Schwuppdiwupp"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.447 GHz  Access Point: BC:14:01:D9:30:48   
          Bit Rate=11 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=70/70  Signal level=-40 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:54   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 50:7b:9d:11:e3:cf  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:20 Memory:e1200000-e1220000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:1831 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1831 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:149611 (149.6 KB)  TX bytes:149611 (149.6 KB)

wlan18    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:81:92:b9  
          inet addr:192.168.0.24  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2a02:8108:2100:29d4::2/128 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fd00:bc14:1d9:3042:5dc7:fbe:8471:d5a/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: 2a02:8108:2100:29d4:2e0:4cff:fe81:92b9/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fd00:bc14:1d9:3042:2e0:4cff:fe81:92b9/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: 2a02:8108:2100:29d4:5dc7:fbe:8471:d5a/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:4cff:fe81:92b9/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5414 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2294051 (2.2 MB)  TX bytes:831220 (831.2 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server:		127.0.1.1
Address:	127.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.38
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.46
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.24
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.53
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.59
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.45
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.32
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.25
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.18
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.31
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.52
Name:	google.com
Address: 194.122.80.39
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