Kubuntu 16.10 - wifi stuck on 'waiting for authorization'

Question

It used to work but I guess one of the updates broke it. I can connect to the wifi on my phone and other OS's. Unsure of what would cause this. I have tried deleting the profile for each connection and re-entering passwords but nothing. IF I remove passwords for the connections it will work.

Answer 1

Try this if you have network-manager enabled :

sudo nmcli dev wifi 

to find your wifi ssid and

sudo nmcli dev wifi connect <your ssid> password <your pass>

Looks like network-manager is waiting for root permission.

Answer 2

If you don't want your password to appear in your history just leave out the password part and add the -a option and it will ask for it after you hit enter:

 sudo nmcli -a dev wifi connect <your ssid>

From man nmcli

 -a | --ask    When using this option nmcli will stop and ask for any missing 
  required arguments, so do not use this option for non-interactive purposes like
scripts. This option controls, for example, whether you will be prompted for a 
password if it is required for connecting to a network.

Answer 3

In my case it was something with the KDE Wallet system. I've installed some updates, and those seem to wipe my old wallet and make it corrupted - ie the wallet could not been opened.

The fix was to create a new wallet and set it as default.

Answer 4

It happened to me and I hadn't done anything. Turned out there was something wrong with the "Bbox" from Bouygues ISP. After 2 hours on the phone they sorted it out.