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Hello

Something very weird just happened within the last hour, on my Tower [ethernet cable connection direct to modem].

1. I had been online for hours as usual, all was fine [& Maui/Tower has been performing nicely for quite a while now, after my previous dramas per other posts].
   
2. Suddenly i lost all internet access.
   
3. Glancing at my modem, i saw that its Internet LED had gone off, & after a few seconds, so did its DSL LED.
   
4. Soon after this, the DSL LED came on again, & a little later, also the Internet LED was back.
   
5. I was irritated but not alarmed at the interruption, [falsely] assuming it had been a momentary blip by my ISP.
   
6. However i found that Tower continued to have no internet access [not via browser, & neither in Konsole pinging 8.8.8.8]
   
7. I ran my bash script to refresh Maui's network connection. This gave every indication of success [as is usual for it], but i still had no internet access.
   
8. I power-cycled the modem [twice], & did more script-refreshes of the network manager... still no good.
   
9. I contacted my ISP to report the fault. They said there was no problem at their end, & tried to get me to do all the things that i had already told them i had done [why don't they ever listen?]
   
10. At this point the telephone connection dropped out whilst they had me on hold [grrr]. Before i called them back, i decided to test the internet connection independent of Maui & Tower. I grabbed my Android tablet, started its WiFi connection to my modem, & was shocked to see that it immediately connected & went online. 
    
11. Realising that this proved the fault was not my ISP, but something with Tower / Maui, I rebooted Tower.
    
12. Internet connectivity was once again ok, after logging in.
    

This left me feeling very embarrassed with my ISP, once i realised the fault lay with Maui & not them (i even rang them back to apologise]. 

Any ideas for this weird occurrence pls? WHY did Maui get so confused when the modem briefly lost its DSL connection, & then WHY did my usual refresh of network connectivity not help (it usually does]? WHY was a reboot then the necessary nuclear option?

You'll have a difficult time convincing me there are *not* some sort of bugs remaining in NetworkManager.

For a while, I had to disconnect from my router before closing a laptop running Maui (and before that, flavors of Netrunner).  Otherwise, NetworkManager would fail to awake upon reopening the laptop.

I'd fix it with

followed by



and all was well again.

But Maui 2.0 (I think) fixed that bug.  A certain ISP based in Philadelphia, PA, still wants to boot me off when I travel to visit family, even though all the hardware recognizes the passwords, etc.  Sigh.

Dagnabbit. Curious, i tried your

& promptly lost my connection. I reverted to my usual bash script, whose primary line is

but like my earlier post, this uncharacteristically did not regain my connectivity. Also unable to help were [& i know this is obsolete, being for Upstart not SystemD]

&

Hence, annoyed all over again, i knew of no other steps i could take, so i rebooted again. As per my initial post, everything was good again after that, but i remain confused/irritated that something has changed / come out of nowhere, that has altered what used to be normal Network Manager behaviour for me.

I checked Update Manager's recent history, but cannot see any recent changes that should be relevant here:
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Sigh.

Hi,

When this happens, sometimes "hardware reset" approach is needed (happens to me as well with wi-fi, though very rarely lately):
1. in case of LAN connection, pull out and plug in the LAN cable back
2. in case of wi-fi, use the hardware switch on laptop to disable and then enable the wi-fi hardware

Together with the Network manager restart it always works for me, I never had to reboot for this.

Ah. Thanks Rocky. Options - i like to have options, & now you've given me one to try, before needing to reboot. "Next time", i shall try this.

I must confess though that i'm unsure why me removing & reinserting the ethernet cable might work, when even the complete power-cycle of the modem still didn't make Maui N/M come good again.

(21st April 2017, 10:38)rocky7x Wrote: [ -> ]... sometimes "hardware reset" approach is needed ...
1. in case of LAN connection, pull out and plug in the LAN cable back

This morning when i woke up Tower, Network Manager didn't want to get out of bed & play. I was in a rush, so thought this was a fine time to try your brute-force method. Hence... cable out, cable in, hello internet once more!

Thank you. Thread now marked as Solved.