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WireGuard - Server Through Gnome Network Manager?
Can a WireGuard server be setup through Gnome network-manager? with a wireguard.conf file - no terminal or other program needed.
I need 3 clients to be able to connect to the server.
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Unable to connect to wifi on my Ubuntu 22.04
Here are some of the log messages:
dmesg:
`gnome-shell' uses wireless extensions which will stop working for Wi-Fi 7 hardware; use nl80211
[ 37.086239] wlo1: authenticate with e6:e1:33:77:01:cd
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IPsec/IKEv2 on Ubuntu 23.04 with strongswan
I have installed the strongswan package on Ubuntu 23.04. in order to connect to a VPN via IPsec/IKEv2. When opening the VPN settings in gnome, I receive the error message "unable to load VPN ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Network and Settings disappeared
I was installing Wine, when my internet dropped. I went up to open my settings and check what was wrong, but when I clicked on the settings button in the drop down it wouldn't do anything, I watched ...
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"nmcheck.gnome.org" pops up with Web Access Blocked, apt-get update returning error 503
I am operating Ubuntu 20.04 on VirtualBox, the thing is whenever I open the virtual machine a popup from nmcheck.gnome.org with the title HotSpot Login appears claiming that according to the network ...
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Prevent specific users from turning off network connections
There is a customised Ubuntu 22.04 system with 4 users: user_a, user_b, user_c, user_d
I want to prevent 2 users (user_c, user_d) from changing Ubuntu settings. I've already locked down the terminal ...
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Ethernet interface is down after GNOME crash
I was doing some random, network intensive thing (apt-getting) on my Ubuntu 22.04 box today when I abruptly went from GNOME to a black screen. After booting up, I had a CLI only - no GNOME. All my ...
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Is a User still a User if files are copied to a new system with same Username?
If I use something like Clonezilla to clone a system to another drive and use that and also copied the ~/home/user files separately, the username is still nominally the same.
I even then (probably ...
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Can't select network in GNOME Settings
I connected my Wi-Fi when installing Ubuntu and it is still working; I'm using it right now to write this question. After that, I never opened network settings until now.
That said I'm unable to ...
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The circle always spins near the text "Available Networks" in Wi-Fi setting in Ubuntu Settings(Ubuntu 20.04.2 Desktop)
The circle always spins near the text “可用网络” in Wi-Fi setting in Ubuntu Settings. And there is no avaliable network to connecting.
I restarted NetworkManager.service, it did not work.
I edited /etc/...
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Cannot store VPN username in Ubuntu 20.04
As documented here, here and here, GNOME (3.36.8) has a problem storing the usernames for VPN connections. In my case this means that every time I want to activate my (openconnect) VPN connection I ...
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GNOME hotspot sleeps after sometime
I tried to create a hotspot from Gnome GUI and from Create ap both are working but whenever laptop on battery gnome hotspot become unconscious( means hotspot is active but can't take connections and ...
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OpenConnect not shown as an option in Network Manager in 20.04
I have network-manager-openconnect-gnome installed, but there is no option for OpenConnect in Network Manager. I am aware of this past question for Ubuntu 16.04. On 20.04, I have done the following + ...
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Imported .ovpn files always prompt for both certificate password + user password instead of just the user password
Maybe I'm doing something wrong on my end, but this is working without any issues in all my Windows clients, and would like to get some help from someone who gets what I'm doing wrong here.
The moment ...
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Online account can't be added
I wanted to add my work calendar to my home system running Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome and I get a message indicating there is "no internet connection - connect to set up new online accounts". I'...
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Wifi disconnects frequently Ubuntu 18.04 (journalctl NetworkManger error codes)
There are obviously a number of similar questions here, e.g.:
Wifi Frequently Disconnecting (timeout)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/525272/ubuntu-18-04-keep-disconnecting-from-home-wifi-...
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Ubuntu 20.04 upgraded some network-manager packages, now problems are ensuing
First of all, these issues only started on 20.04 after a recent network-manager upgrade (and the related components such as network-manager-gnome) and this is a laptop, HP envy m7-n101dx running 20.04....
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Ubuntu 19.10: "Add" OpenVPN connection is grayed out
I'm trying to add a new OpenVPN connection on a fully-updated Ubuntu 19.10 PC, but the Add button uptop is grayed out:
I already tried to:
zane@zane-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install network-manager-...
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Ubuntu 19.10 closes all apps on screen lock
If i let my pc idle out, on opening again all the applications are killed.
i tried:
sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep -iE "power|sleep|shutdown"
and this is what pops up.
system log for ...
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gnome apps think there is no network
I had to reconfigure my machine network configuration from dhcp to static IP by manually editing netplan config. Apparently, there is some GNOME related configuration leftover, because several ...
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How to create an ad-hoc wireless network in Ubuntu
This should be very easy but I am finding it quite hard in Ubuntu.
I want to create a network so that I can connect other devices to my computer wirelessly. I do not need an internet connection, I ...
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How to build network-manager-openvpn and network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Long story short, I want to build network-manager-openvpn and/or network-manager-openvpn-gnome from source, to fix an oooold bug in this tool (ask by many persons for more than 10 years...) and add ...
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Toggle WLAN Hotspot Gnome Taskbar
I have a mobile broadband connection that I am often sharing via hotspot on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and Gnome 3.28.2. I can perfectly do this (as described for example here) via GUI. But I would like to ...
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How to prevent gnome Network Settings GUI from overriding my network settings?
I wish to simply set a Static IP in /etc/network/interfaces file. I'm used to doing this successfully on boxes without a GUI.
But now I am using "Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver" with GNOME and the ...
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Connect to OpenVPN managed by NetworkManager using console
How do I connect to OpenVPN server managed by NetworkManager configured in Gnome settings using a command line?
Is there a way to trigger this using command from a console?
I found out NetworkManager ...
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How to completely remove network-manager [duplicate]
A few days ago, my computer WiFi was getting interrupted. Because of this, I connected the modem directly to the computer. But I still had a problem connecting to the Internet, and sometimes my ...
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Gnome Network Manager failing to connect
I set up my network manager, and was able to set up a VPN, but when I go can click the on/off slider, it blinks and stays off. I get this error is the syslog:
<info> [1537687904.4383] audit:...
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LightDM not loading any window managers
Short version:
LightDM doesn't quite load my i3 session correctly and fails splendidly at loading my vanilla Unity desktop session. I suspect it's a problem with LightDM's configuration or various ...
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Cisco Anyconnect vs network-manager-openconnect-gnome settings?
I currently have and use the official Cisco AnyConnect Client.
When I connect to it all it asks me for is my username and password.
When I try to connect to the same server using the package from ...
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How to fix OpenVPN error when using network-manager-openvpn-gnome?
I need to connect to some VPN via OpenVPN.
I am using Bionic.
It works when I run the command as sudo from terminal
~$ sudo openvpn --config somevpn.ovpn
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Sun Jun 10 22:35:31 2018 TUN/TAP device ...
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Connect to WiFi with a hidden SSID on Ubuntu 18.04
Is it possible to connect to Wi-Fi with a hidden SSID using the GNOME DE that now comes with Ubuntu 18.04?
I've done the usual googles and searches and not been able to find an answer.
If not what ...
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How to set global route in GNOME Network Manager
My apologies for the German screenshot. I don’t know how to force the settings window to be in English.
When configuring networks, GNOME offers to configure the routes manually. However, it does not ...
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wireless authentication window pops up even after disabling it in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I have tried applying the following settings to suppress this pop-up on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS but the window still pops-up randomly. Is this is a bug in the OS or am I missing something else?
gsettings ...
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Automatically disable wifi (wireless) when 'x seconds' since last browser page change
Is it possible to create a script like this?
I'm asking because i suspect that the wifi power manangent in my ancient hardware is really really bad. To the point that while i had no internet, my ...
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Add button disabled (grayed) when trying to add new openconnect connection
native NetworkManager openconnect (cisco anyconnect) connection master used to create a new connection and worked well in Ubuntu GNOME 17.04. Lately I migrated to Ubuntu 17.10 and when I'm trying to ...
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How to automatically connect to VPN in Ubuntu 17.10?
I can't seem to get my openvpn connection to automatically connect when I wake up from system suspend or reboot. The openvpn connection works fine through the GUI, except there is no option to auto-...
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Configure WiFi roaming for Gnome Network Manager
Is it possible to change/configure the WiFi roaming strategy for Gnome Network Manager?
In general I would like to be able to configure how sticky it should be to connected access points (APs) and ...
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Create hotspot from LAN cable in ubuntu 17.04 gnome using terminal
I have been searching this but could not find a proper solution. Creating it directly from Network Manager GUI doesn't work. It gives the following error:
Activation of network connection failed.
If ...
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Replacement to network-manager-openvpn-gnome
Is there any modern GUI equivalent of network-manager-openvpn-gnome on ubuntu? Something like TunnelBlick in MacOS?
Why i ask?
Over the past few months, the default manager has ceased to be useful in ...
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How to setup WiFi hotspot in Ubuntu 16.04 GNOME?
I've been trying to setup a hotspot from wired connection, but I can't seem to do it. Every tutorial I've found says to do it through "Edit connections", but I don't have that option since I have ...
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Ubuntu GNOME 16.10/17.04 issue with creating hot-spot using Network Manager
I've experienced the following problem on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 and 17.04.
Using Gnome-Network-Manager (I don't want to use other tools) I have issues when I create a wifi hot-spot to allow my Android ...
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How do I change Wi-Fi Hotspot settings in Ubuntu with GNOME 3?
How do I manage my hotspot connected devices or change the hotspot password? I can only see the Network Name, Security type and the Password but I can't seem to manage users or the network properties.
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Linksys AC6000 USB - wireless networks not visible in Ubuntu 16.04 (Gnome/Unity)
I don't exactly know how to start.
I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 with Gnome desktop. I've been running this for a while and everything worked perfectly until I found some issues with USB WiFi dongle. ...
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Networkmanager does not know that I am online, after resuming from hibernate
The following question is very close to this question. When closing the lid of my notebook or going to hybernate and waking up my Ubuntu Mate 16.04 machine, the nm-applet shows, that I am offline.
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wifi still sleeping when resume
When I put my desktop in hybernate and then put it back on the wifi is gone. It is simular to the problem described here. But to fix it you have to run a command sudo nmcli nm sleep false. But the nm ...
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Ubuntu-GNOME - nm-applet icon just disappears when usb-tethering is active
I don't actually use UbuntuGNOME distro, but rather installed ubuntu-gnome-desktop package on the stock unity-based version of trusty. All other things are smooth after transition, except this one ...
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How to make Ubuntu GNOME ignore VMware's vmnet8?
I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 15.04 and VMware Workstation 12.0, which installs its virtual interface vmnet8 for VMs' network connectivity through NAT. I'm using VMware on my laptop with ordinary eth0 and ...
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In ubuntu 15.04 ,wired and wireless are not connected after running sudo apt-get purgr network-manager-gnome network manager
I run command sudo apt-get purge network-manager-gnome network-manager. After running that command wireless and wired networks are not connected to my laptop.
And when I look into "system setting->...
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Ubuntu Network manager
I uninstalled network-manager from my Ubuntu-gnome, so I don't have internet connection. How can I reistall it.
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Unable to load VPN connection editor in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Some time ago I created a VPN connection using Ubuntus own Network Manager, which worked fine! Now, a few months later, I want to go in and edit the connections details, but instead I get this error: ...
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