On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 9:07 AM, Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com> wrote:

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Actually it seems I solved, or better, for some reason the wifi was disconnected, but from a sw point of view, not with the buttons combination, that are Fn+F2 in my case.
See below
 

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What I found is that I didn't noticed in control manager of Gnome, in settings --> Wi-Fi I had in top right of the bar, here the image


switched to off... I don't know why. I switched to On and all went good

I have a suspect. I was already connected to cable lan and I wanted to connect also to wifi (something I'm often doing to open a VPN through the wifi connection).
One possibility is that in new release if you are already connected through cable lan, wifi becomes disabled... I have to verify
Or it was only a mis-typing at my side...
Now after booting today, I'm using wifi without problems but I have not my lan cable connected

Gianluca
 

After doing some tests, I can confirm my suspects about different behavior depending on lan cable connected or not when opening the Gnome session.
Some details

- boot into Gnome with lan cable connected:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M9k6HalwQrDTHDtVagkMz1CQjxYk6af8/view?usp=sharing
You see what is the network line, but without a label... -> confusing

- if in this scenario I click on the right arrow:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19olKfBRwyjr-nezSxQUhrmgjBtY1qPl8/view?usp=sharing
You verify expanding that it is indeed relatd to wired lan settings

But there is no "direct" option to interact with wifi
Even if you detach the lan cable, you get this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-VuZssh-XilIrA-hsn-915H7oOSezTFy/view?usp=sharing
So you loose the "no label" line related to wired network.

But even waiting for some time there is no wifi line appearing...
You can go into Settings page (the bottom left icon in previous screenshots) and in Wi-Fi you see the available wireless networks (now I have no more the problem of wifi disabled, so I can connect).

Direct boot without lan cable connected:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UBwzkiL_6UeNzNf2GP4N00ToRWeNvbcq/view?usp=sharing
You now see an explicit wireless line, with indication that it is not connected (in case none of the automatic-connect wifi networks is not available, otherwise you see the connection active)

Expanding the wifi line:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1d1B1ixchTWz8EI5TpiaIeOPYJbigEyzq/view?usp=sharing
So you see the choice for the wireless lan you want to connect to:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10-7z5ZsjYZpCL5_bAJUopDvzSnb_d-6M/view?usp=sharing

Hope I have clarified.

In my opinion we have two things:

- wired network line without label and so a bit confusing
- wireless options automatically hidden if you are connected through lan cable. This could be a feature or not depending on the final user. It would be nice if one can explicitly choose the behavior

Cheers,
Gianluca