Ubuntu Linux installed on a Lenovo laptop randomly disables wireless networks altogether. Subsequently, it does not show any wireless networks too in Network Manager.
To resolve this issue, did the following:
$ sudo lshw -class network <enter>
Below is the result.
Notice the logical name wlp2s0b1 and the driver brcmsmac
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlp2s0b1
version: 01
serial: 21:ef:c7:1f:db:a5
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmsmac driverversion=4.18.0-14-generic firmware=610.812 ip=1.2.3.4 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:18 memory:f0500000-f0503fff
$ sudo vi /etc/pm/config.d/config <enter>
Add below line to the file and save.
SUSPEND_MODULES=”brcmsmac wlp2s0b1″
:wq
Restart network manager using
$ sudo service network-manager restart <enter>
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