Plugging In Iphone Disables Wifi

[trinidad]

I cannot tell you how often the Wi-Fi of an older model laptop/desktop goes down from plugging in an iPhone

Yeah it's a bad network manager in the phone which has been forced on Apple users via itunes and some other apps. It actually changes settings because it uses USB root on the phone connection. First off from now on connect with bluetooth instead of plugging in and/or shut off the phone while it's plugged in to the computer before unplugging it.

Unplug the phone and shut down your LL computer. Start it again and see if the netwrok manager returns. If not open a terminal and run the following code.

Code:

sudo iwconfig

If your wifi interface (probably something like wlx... and a bunch of numbers) is not listed as managed run the codes below in order.

Code:

sudo ifconfig yourinterfacename down

Code:

sudo iwconfig yourinterfacename mode managed

Code:

sudo ifconfig yourinterfacename up

Not a Linux Lite error. Just a little joyful piece of Apple spyware.

TC