Network Manager – Wired Connection Icon Displayed Instead of Wifi Icon on Ubuntu 16.04

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I am connected to a WiFi network but wired connection icon is shown:

Screen-shot of the problem:

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I also can't see other available WiFi networks in order to connect to them.

Output for lspci -knn | grep Net -A2:

0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
    Kernel driver in use: wl

What should I do?

Best Answer

This is caused by a bug in Network Manager. It seems that when wlan0 is renamed using the new naming scheme it confuses Network Manager and Network Manager thinks you have another ethernet connection.

It can normally be fixed with

systemctl restart NetworkManager.service
The command will have to be done after a reboot or suspend until the fixes are released

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