Unanswered Questions
6,189 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Allow computer to sleep even with Mobile Hotspot turned on
The way it is right now, as long as the hotspot is turned on, the computer will never go to sleep. Enabling the power save option wouldn't change anything as my devices stay connected to the hotspot ...
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Advertise to clients of Wifi router that the WiFi internet connection is metered
Is it possible to have a Wifi router advertise that the Wifi is connected to internet over a metered connection (over a 4G usb dongle)?
I know it's possible on client to set that the connection is ...
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5 GHz AP Mode with Atheros QCA6174A chipset on CentOS 8
I am trying to set up an 5 GHz access point on a machine with an Atheros QCA6174A-equipped Wi-Fi card running CentOS 8.
However, all 5 GHz bands are blocked (no-IR flag set) for operation in AP mode (...
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System tray shows standard WiFi icon while VPN connected
Normally, when I connect to my VPN the WiFi icon in the system tray changes to what I believe is the wired network icon. See images below for example images.
Wifi:
Wired:
Recently the icon is no ...
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How to build a parallel, failsafe, redundant RTP wireless link
I have the following situation: A radio transmission studio is located in a town and the FM transmitter on the top of a hill 2km away with perfect vision.
Currently the studio sends an RTP audio ...
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Blocking Tiktok Android app from router
I was wondering how can I block the TikTok Android app from the router it self?
My router has a function to block a web address or an ip address.
So does anyone know what website/IP address should I ...
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libnl takes time to see a disconnected client
I am working on an embedded device, with a custom OS (Yocto on iMX6).
The device use hostapd to create a WLAN.
I use libnl to list the connected WiFi clients, my code is based on iw to get the ...
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IPCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
We have a problem with part of our devices which are using ppp to connect to the internet using 3G modem in US. The issue seems really odd as only few of the devices have this problem but it is a ...
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wlp2s0 with wpa_supplicant under NixOS
I have a NixOS system (nixos https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-18.03). Using wpa_supplicant, I can't get my wireless card to connect to my home network (WPA2).
It's using the new Systemd Predictable ...
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Linux not preferring ipv6 on dhcpv6 network
On my home network, I'm using a (Raspbian) Raspberry Pi as a wifi router with hostapd, isc-dhcp-server, radvd, pihole, and dnscrypt-proxy installed. I do not use dhcpcd, I use dhclient. As I only get ...
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Slow upload speed, fast download speed between two wireless LAN devices
I've got an interesting puzzle for you:
I've got two computers connected to the same LAN wirelessly.
Computer A is using 802.11ac wireless protocol. Computer B is using 802.11n.
I begin uploading ...
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ipconfig /release (AUTO RENEW???)
I have a (very very) remote machine running over teamviewer, I (mistakenly) ran
ipconfig /release
The machine is set never to sleep or restart and no items are set to power saving mode. The only ...
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No internet connection with bridge adapter
I had internet connection inside my virtual box but after not using it for over a week I am not having internet connection. (Similar question to the question posted on ask ubuntu)
The things that ...
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I'm going insane.... Chrome on OSX problems
OK, so this is going to drive me to drink if I spend any more time trying to figure it out.
I have a situation where things seem fine when I hit a web site from safari, but any attempt to surf ...
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Can I prefer different WiFi networks based on location? MacOS / OSX
So MacOS / OSX has a nice "Network Location feature" that seems to be able to switch between different IP settings, etc, easily. But what I want to achieve is that when I've set "work" location, ...
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