On Wednesday 13 June 2018 01:30:33 Mike Bird wrote:
> On Wed June 13 2018 01:25:00 William Morder wrote:
> > I don't get any error messages. I get nothing at all. The browser just
> > doesn't load over a direct connection. If you mean what do I get when I
> > run a command in a console, I am just now going through commands. So far,
> > ifconfig and iwconfig turn up nothing new; it looks normal enough.
>
> You had earlier stated that "network-aware programs cannot recognize
> wlan0".  What appears in ifconfig and iwconfig?
>
> --Mike

I've already tried these; I used these commands all the time, especially 
iwconfig. 

ifconfig -a
eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 00:1d:60:94:77:a4  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 552644  bytes 2130121850 (1.9 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 552644  bytes 2130121850 (1.9 GiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.246.154.167  netmask 255.255.252.0  broadcast 10.246.155.255
        inet6 fe80::202:72ff:fe88:d1fd  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:02:72:88:d1:fd  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 2776170  bytes 4048306737 (3.7 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 1449588  bytes 197469814 (188.3 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Note that I disable ipv6, so I'm curious if it has somehow got re-enabled. 

iwconfig
wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"WHERE I LIVE"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: AC:86:74:A3:66:C2
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=30 dBm
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=58/100  Signal level=58/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:161  Invalid misc:41051   Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

But when I look at network configuration in other places (for instance, in 
Trinity Control Center), no network connections at all are supposed to be 
enabled. 

Bill