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Wifi stopped working after docker installation on Linux


I have installed Docker following their offical docs here on my Linux Mint computer (running on a Mac Book Pro).

After the install the WIFI shut down and suddenly stopped working. The problem persist after having uninstalled docker.

The output of iwconfig gives:

enx7831c1f319de  no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

Output of ip link gives:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enx7831c1f319de: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 78:31:c1:f3:19:de brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

NB: I briefly saw in my network manager (bottom left shortcut) a "Docker bridge connection" which i deleted.

I can i get my Wifi working again - or reset everything ?

UPDATE: Full network/config info wireless-info.txt dump here

One more idea: could it be a modprob blacklisted module by docker or something ?


Solution

  • So after reading your network/config I noticed the following :

    [    6.721067] b43-phy0 ERROR: FOUND UNSUPPORTED PHY (Analog 12, Type 11 (AC), Revision 1)
    [    6.721073] b43: probe of bcma0:1 failed with error -95
    

    A dmesg | grep b43 will confirm if there's really an error but I'll suggest to execute the following :

    sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
    sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
    sudo modprobe b43