Since I have been using the same wifi networks for the past few weeks its been no big deal that I dont have a wireless icon, but its odd that it suddenly disappeared out of nowhere. What could have happened to it?
Did some of the commands; here is what I got, as the commands commentor 1 gave me didnt seem to work:
Here is the menu bar prior to entering sudo:
sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
wait 5secsudo systemctl start NetworkManager
and you will have it again. But you must inspect the cause. Postsudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep NetworkManager
output, we will search for any "culprit". – Redbob Oct 02 '17 at 12:45