I have been having wifi issues since I installed Linux a few months back but since I was always using an ethernet cable, I didn't bother too much with it. But now, I don't have access to an ethernet cable.
My wifi card does not connect and keeps telling me "activation of network connection failed"
I bought a USB wifi dongle. Now this was working for a while and stopped working for idk what reason. Now, it kept asking me for the password repeatedly.
I reinstalled Ubuntu today and the issues are still there. I've been using usb tethering from my phone for now as a short-term solution. Any help?
**sudo lshw -C network**
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: enp7s0
version: 05
serial: e0:db:55:e3:1f:d8
size: 10Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
resources: irq:16 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:c1404000-c1404fff memory:c1400000-c1403fff
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: MEDIATEK Corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: wlp8s0f0
version: 00
serial: fc:4d:d4:51:c3:48
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=mt76x0e driverversion=5.0.0-25-generic firmware=1.0.07-b370 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:c1500000-c15fffff
*-network:0
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
bus info: usb@3:1
logical name: wlx78321b9197f1
serial: 78:32:1b:91:97:f1
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8188eu multicast=yes wireless=unassociated
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 3
logical name: enp0s20u3
serial: 92:03:7d:73:a9:9f
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rndis_host driverversion=22-Aug-2005 firmware=RNDIS device ip=192.168.42.215 link=yes multicast=yes
**rfkill list all**
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
I'm at my wits end. I've tried many solutions listed online but none of them worked. I hope this can be fixed
