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[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Steam Noob"]I'm the Steam Noob from a while back, who wanted to know about steam accounts and the friends and family feature. Although I was running steam on Linux I haven't played in a while and the issues I had using vanilla Debian instead of the recommended Ubuntu may be different now (I had trouble with Ubuntu mostly because of that Plymouth thing.) However I <i>may</i> be able to help with the wifi thing. If you're using a Debian based distro that uses the debian network scripts that read /etc/network/interfaces and has the same wpa-supplicant package, then do this: Some hook scripts or something that debian packages with wpa-supplicant implement a sort of "roaming mode" which users of desktop devices and phones alike might know as "just how wifi is." Your /etc/network/interfaces (or something matching /etc/network/interfaces.d/*) should have something like this, assuming the wifi card on your system shows up as wlan0: <pre> auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual wpa-driver wext wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf iface home inet dhcp </pre> Here "home" is of course an identifier of your choosing, and is a logical name that will alias wlan0 iff wlan0 is connected to a certain access point. The important thing is the wpa-roam line that makes those hook scripts or whatever they are (I can't remember) do their stuff (whatever that is). Now if your wpa_supplicant.conf has a network block like this: <pre> network={ ssid="thoughtleader" # ... thought leaders network conf here ... } </pre> Add an id_str line: <pre> network={ ssid="thoughtleader" # ... thought leaders network conf here ... id_str="home" } </pre> And make sure that if there isn't already a ctrl_interface line in wpa_supplicant conf that you add one. e.g. ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant Now if wifi is lost it should keep trying to connect again.[/quote] I'm going to be responding to everyone, but thank you for this - this did solve my problem on my Mint machine before I made it an Ubuntu machine. You're a Caltrops All-Star. If anyone ever picks on you on another forum you frequent, reference this post and I will shame them. ICJ[/quote]