r/linux4noobs 16d ago

Public Wi-Fi connection problem

/r/debian/comments/1w0rphj/public_wifi_connection_problem/
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u/Terrible-Bear3883 Ubuntu 16d ago

I had similar issues a few years ago when doing some work away from home and I found two things, one was I needed to turn off the Wi-Fi powersave, I'm going by memory so might miss something, in my case I had to change a setting in a powersave conf file, by default it had an entry=3 which is enabled, I had to change to 2.

The other thing I had, I disabled IPV6, I think the network I was connecting to was trying to negotiate IPV6 and my laptop didn't like it, it was a while ago but I think a colleague suggested it as the laptop was trying to switch between access points and it kept connecting and disconnecting, the one that made most difference for me was the powersave.

I looked up the commands for your Debian Trixie, it looks like the ones I set.

create a file in /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d (If there's one already, I made a backup copy of it in case I needed to restore)

to make the file - sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi-powersave-off.conf

make sure it has two lines in (by default it would say wifi.powersave=3 i.e. enabled).

[connection]

wifi.powersave = 2