After updating to 17.10 if I restart my computer the internet doesn't work (wireless / ethernet). However, I noticed beameup on this post (
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2374857) mentioned that when he flipped on his VPN (Private Internet Access - aka PIA) things started working. I have PIA so I flipped it on and I was able to connect to the net as well. In fact, if I'm connected to the VPN my wireless shows up as a normal working icon. If the VPN is off it shows up as a question mark and nothing works. Unlike beameup the "sudo dpkg-reconfigure resolveconf" didn't do the trick for me. How do I get this resolved?
Steps I've tried....
Config output (No VPN)
[eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 ether 00:90:f5:ea:54:c7 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 20 memory 0xf7e00000-f7e20000
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 7623 bytes 693829 (693.8 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 7623 bytes 693829 (693.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.86.135 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.86.255
inet6 fe80::ba76:3fff:fe78:e9f3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:76:3f:78:e9:f3 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 896 bytes 261407 (261.4 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 665 bytes 142825 (142.8 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0]
iwonconfig
[wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"ShadowsAlley" Mode:Managed Frequency:5.745 GHz Access Point: 70:3A:CB:63:8F:B3
Bit Rate=243 Mb/s Tx-Power=17 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=65/70 Signal level=-45 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:120 Missed beacon:0]
ping test to 8.8.8.8 (no VPN)
[PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=75.3 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=266 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=26.4 ms
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 26.440/122.745/266.437/103.550 ms]