I'm trying to execute these two commands to try to fix my intermittent wireless connection
iwconfig wlan0
sudo iwconfig wlan0 off
But I get this error
wlan0 there is no such device
Based on suggestions here is my system information
ls -1 /etc/modprobe.d/
alsa-base.conf
amd64-microcode-blacklist.conf
blacklist-ath_pci.conf
blacklist.conf
blacklist-firewire.conf
blacklist-framebuffer.conf
blacklist-modem.conf
blacklist-oss.conf
blacklist-rare-network.conf
intel-microcode-blacklist.conf
iwlwifi.conf
lsusb; lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net; iwconfig
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087: 0024 Integrated Speed Equalization Concentrator from Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0002 root hub of Linux Foundation 2.0
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 093a: 2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical mouse
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d: c31c Logitech, Inc. Keyboard K120
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0f0d: 008c Hori Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40: 0101 Hub Terminus Technology Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087: 0024 Integrated Speed Equalization Concentrator from Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b: 0002 Linux Foundation root hub 2.0
03: 00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111 / 8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (Rev 09)
Subsystem: Lenovo RTL8111 / 8168/8411 PCI Express Ethernet Gigabit Controller [17aa:3653]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Core modules: r8169
04: 00.0 network driver [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0030] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx wireless network adapter [168c:3112]
Kernel driver in use: ath9k
Core modules: ath9k
There are no wireless extensions.
wlp4s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID: "FiOS-86YMQ-5G"
Mode: Managed frequency: 5.66 GHz Access point: 48: 5D: 36: 1B: 3B: 00
Bit rate = 135 Mb / s Tx-Power = 19 dBm
Retry short limit: 7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr thr: off
Power management: off
Link quality = 38/70 Signal level = -72 dBm
Invalid Rx nwid: 0 Rx invalid crypt: 0 Rx invalid frag: 0
Excessive retry attempts: 0 Invalid valid: 226 Missing beacon: 0
enp3s0 there are no wireless extensions.
ifconfig
enp3s0: flags = 4099 MTU 1500
ether ec: a8: 6b: 3e: 88: 44 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overflows 0 frame 0
Packages TX 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 exceeded 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags = 73 MTU 65536
Inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 :: 1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10
loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback)
Packages RX 2215 bytes 196421 (196.4 KB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overflows 0 frame 0
Packages TX 2215 bytes 196421 (196.4 KB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 exceeded 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
wlp4s0: flags = 4163 MTU 1500
inet 192.168.1.179 netmask 255.255.255.0 transmission 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80 :: ef25: 788: fc52: 289e prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20
ether c0: 25: e9: 23: ff: 43 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
Packages RX 74193 bytes 95337643 (95.3 MB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overflows 0 frame 0
Packages TX 26172 bytes 3854868 (3.8 MB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 exceeded 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
What do I do to solve this error?
wlan0 there is no such device
