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srfrogg23 Dec 21, 2023 @ 10:33am

OLED SD Still won't auto connect to home Wi-Fi

It's a minor nuisance, but every time I wake up my OLED Steam Deck, it fails to automatically reconnect to my home wi-fi. EDIT: My LCD Steam Deck seems to recently have been afflicted with the same problem with reconnecting to my wi-fi.

This also occassionally results in my account being stuck in offline mode until I Change Account (simply logging back into my account) to fix the problem.

I've tried "forgetting" my wi-fi and reconnecting, but putting the SD to sleep and waking it back up still results in me having to manually navigate to my internet settings and manually reconnecting to my wi-fi despite the "automatically reconnect" toggle being turned on.

I've also tried this with my phones hotspot and still won't auto connect to my hotspot either.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

Last edited by srfrogg23; Dec 21, 2023 @ 11:55am

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Originally posted by ToWcH:

For anyone who is still having this problem, I just fixed it on my OLED SD. My issue to be clear was that my SD won't auto connect to my home wifi. I have to manual click connect on it for it to connect to the wifi. Putting SD to sleep or restarting causes it to disconnect and I have to reconnect again.

THE FIX:
I switch SD to desktop mode. Went to settings, and scrolled down to the part that lists your wired and wireless connections. Here's the kicker, the wireless section that shows all the wireless connection that you have connected to showed that there were 2 identical listings of my home wifi. It should only be one.
I deleted both of them and reconnection to the wifi.
SD now auto connects after sleeping or after restarting.

I hope this helps.

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PopinFRESH Dec 21, 2023 @ 2:24pm

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/4038101970203502664/

srfrogg23 Dec 21, 2023 @ 2:43pm

Originally posted by PopinFRESH:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/4038101970203502664/

That's not the same. Not at all.

deaddoof Dec 21, 2023 @ 3:29pm

Do you want to check network manger? I never had autoconnect mess up in my life. Do you want to try it and see? Run konsole in game mode I guess.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/947965/how-to-trigger-network-manager-autoconnect

srfrogg23 Dec 21, 2023 @ 3:51pm

Originally posted by deaddoof:
Do you want to check network manger? I never had autoconnect mess up in my life. Do you want to try it and see? Run konsole in game mode I guess.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/947965/how-to-trigger-network-manager-autoconnect

I appreciate the link, but I have no idea what they're talking about in that thread. I know next to nothing about Windows and I know even less about Linux.

Haruspex Dec 21, 2023 @ 4:15pm

Mine failed to connect on startup for the first time today. Found it a little weird, since it was fine before. It would connect if I forced it after. I was on stable and switched to beta, now it's fine.

If you're on stable, try switching to beta. If you're on beta, try switching it to stable.

Edit:
I was experiencing the same weird crashes having switched to Beta again. Same reason I switched it to stable in the first place. Switched it back to stable and everything seems fine again. Wifi is connecting.

Last edited by Haruspex; Dec 22, 2023 @ 9:23am

JohnDeere_Simulations Dec 21, 2023 @ 4:18pm

Your steam deck will probably connect to your Wi-Fi but I’ve had the same exact issue too. If you have a new Wi-Fi router, put in sometimes older devices or newer won’t connect for some reason to a newer Wi-Fi router. It’s very annoying but we had the same issue. It’s something to do with the Internet service provider or the router itself is just newer technology then the steam deck is.

srfrogg23 Dec 21, 2023 @ 5:17pm

Originally posted by JohnDeereSimulations:
Your steam deck will probably connect to your Wi-Fi but I’ve had the same exact issue too. If you have a new Wi-Fi router, put in sometimes older devices or newer won’t connect for some reason to a newer Wi-Fi router. It’s very annoying but we had the same issue. It’s something to do with the Internet service provider or the router itself is just newer technology then the steam deck is.

Yeah, I don't have any problems connecting. As long as I go into the Wi-Fi options and manually connect, it connects instantly. It just won't do it automatically, which is the part that's becoming a bit annoying.

DurtyFrost Jun 11, 2024 @ 10:54pm

Originally posted by srfrogg23:
It's a minor nuisance, but every time I wake up my OLED Steam Deck, it fails to automatically reconnect to my home wi-fi. EDIT: My LCD Steam Deck seems to recently have been afflicted with the same problem with reconnecting to my wi-fi.

This also occassionally results in my account being stuck in offline mode until I Change Account (simply logging back into my account) to fix the problem.

I've tried "forgetting" my wi-fi and reconnecting, but putting the SD to sleep and waking it back up still results in me having to manually navigate to my internet settings and manually reconnecting to my wi-fi despite the "automatically reconnect" toggle being turned on.

I've also tried this with my phones hotspot and still won't auto connect to my hotspot either.

Anyone know of a fix for this?

Just spent hours trying to fix this issue. You fun's a workaround?