Intel WiFi Link 5100 on Budgie 19.10

I am coming from a Linux Mint environment and I have recently installed Ubuntu Budgie 19.10 on my Dell e6400 laptop. My wireless card has worked in the past with no issues on Linux Mint. However, since installing Budgie 19.10 (previous version does not work either), the wireless card can see my 2.4 Ghz network, however, when authenticating it times out and asks for the passcode again. Connecting on the 5Ghz side has no issues.

The installed wireless card is an Intel WiFi Link 5100. Wireless card details:

*-network description: Wireless interface product: WiFi Link 5100 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0 logical name: wlp12s0 version: 00 serial: 00:22:fb:1d:15:60 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.3.0-26-generic firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 ip=192.168.0.20 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 resources: irq:28 memory:f69fe000-f69fffff

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks, Dubya

1 Answer

Sorry for the delay. Had personal matters to deal with.

Rebooting the router did not resolve the issue. Yes, WPA2 is enabled on both. Both frequencies share the same network name with the frequency tagged to the name. Both frequencies share the same password. All software updates had been performed.

I cannot locate the Interfaces folder under Network. In the Network folder are four sub folders: if-down.d
if-post-down.d
if-pre-up.d if-up.d

cat /etc/netplan/*.yaml produces:

(the hastag was removed to prevent the remainder of the text to go into bold and larger font) Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system network: version: 2 renderer: NetworkManager

When I perform the dkms command nothing happens (please go easy on me I am a linux noob)

Thank you,

Dubya