[Solved] - WiFi in Maui ?

[kdemeoz]

Hi. I'm reaching out to any relevant User or Mod/Admin with first-hand experience of using WiFi in Maui. I'd like to hear your experiences & advice as to the stability & reliability of WiFi in Maui, covering:
1. Stability during a session [can your pc stay connected to wifi & reliably transmit & receive data hour after hour after hour without intervention, or does wifi "die" after a while & need you to intervene?]
2. Stability across sessions, eg, after Suspend / Resume [after Resume, do Network Manager & WiFi automatically pickup the network connection & resume data flow ok, or is User-intervention required?]
3. General remarks?

I have 2 PCs, a Tower without WiFi running Maui 2 [via Maui 1 originally], & a Dell XPS-15 Lappy not running Maui, & whose WiFi is frequently troublesome for both #1 & #2 above. I am seriously considering replacing Lappy's Mint 18 Xfce with Maui to get the WiFi hassles resolved, but first it would help to read the experiences of other users with first-hand experience of WiFi in Maui.

I have read already: https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....light=wifi

Some background info is here [final 2 sentences]: https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....7#pid40467

Full details are here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p...5#p1237117

Thank you.

Code:

Network:   Card-1: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 04:00.0
          IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter>
          Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
          driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: 5000 bus-ID: 09:00.0
          IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>

[Gorreh]

Hello
My experience with wifi on Maui. 
I have no issue with wifi except when laptop wakes up from suspend (more than about 30min) after this wifi doesn't work, though the icon in system tray shows that I'm connected. I needed run:

Code:

sudo service network-manager restart

I found solution under this link http://askubuntu.com/questions/761180/wi...04-upgrade
now the suspend problem on wifi no occurs anymore (well, sometimes icon dissapears form system tray, but wifi works well)
regards
gorreh
p.s. I use Asus laptops 
p.s. this is general problem in many distros 

[rocky7x]

I had a similar problem but after some updates in the past it doesn't happen anymore and wifi works flawlessly. Laptop is Asus N550.

[kdemeoz]

Thank you both.

Last night i downloaded the Maui2 ISO & burnt it to USB stick. Today i booted Lappy from it, in order to assess the Maui2 Network Manager WiFi stability & reliability compared to my Mint 18 Xfce WiFi frustrations. So far Maui2 via live-USB has been running ~5 hrs streaming music from Icecast via WiFi connection to my modem-router. It has not stopped data flow even once yet.

[kdemeoz]

Well, Maui2 ISO per live-USB has now been music-streaming over WiFi for ~11 hrs without failing. Furthermore, i even tried one or two Lappy Suspend-Resumes, & WiFi picked up the connection nicely thereafter. This is very promising!

I'm still not quite ready to blow Mint 18 Xfce away completely yet, but i have made room on its SSD to install a second OS, eg, Maui2. All i need to work out next, before proceeding with the Maui2 installation, is how to create a shared /data partition into which i can move all Mint's /home's documents, for access by both Linuxes whenever either is booted, whilst keeping all their configs separate in dedicated /home partitions. Oh, & as i like to have /home encrypted with .ecryptfs, the putative new /data partition will also need to be encrypted. Fun.

[kdemeoz]

Maui WiFi is going great for me.  https://forums.mauilinux.org/showthread....7#pid40877. Closing this thread now.