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Asked: 2017-05-07 16:02:14 +0800 CST

Kde (Kubuntu) 17.04 error: "waiting for authorization"

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I recently update my kde 16.04 to KDE 17.04. During few day, everything was working well. But since yesterday, I am unable to connect to wifi. I just have something like: waiting for authorization. Can someone help me understand what is wrong with my system and solve the issue?

Update

When I am oui on a public Wifi, my laptop is able to connect to wifi. This is really weird. I have tried with my phone access point, this is not working. I can't really understand why it is working with public wifi, but neither on my home wifi nor on my phone wifi.

Update 2

When I try to connect to my wifi, I just get a message like this : enter image description here

can someone help please

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I have finally found solution. Kwallet was blocking my network but was not prompting for a password. Thank you all ... ;)

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  2. All you need to do is Open a terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T and run:

    sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

    At the bottom of this file, copy and paste the following:

    [device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no

    Then just save the file by pressing Ctrl + X, type in Y (to say yes while saving changes) and press Enter and close the file, to make sure run the following command again and see if the changes you made are still there

    sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

    if yes then close the terminal window open a new terminal window and run this following command

    sudo service network-manager restart

    And wifi should work again!

    Another problem that might be causing this, is DNS issue, You'll need to first check if you have 8.8.8.8 already in your dns, if not the add DNS address using this answer

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