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I have a very normal ethernet adapter. After upgrading to 17.10, and therefore now using Gnome instead of unity, the network has a question mark on a grey network icon. Why’s that?

Question mark on network symbol

MPi
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  • It could be a theme thing. Meaning, the usual icon cannot be found, and instead, a question mark icon is displayed. Try switching to another icon theme. – Jos Mar 06 '18 at 16:54
  • I’m using the standard Ubuntu theme and wouldn’t even know how to change the icon theme on the Gnome panel. – MPi Jun 25 '18 at 08:48
  • Is that question mark not going away after sometime or after you soft restart or logout and log on?? – PRATAP Jun 25 '18 at 08:58
  • No, it’s not going away as long as I am connected to wired LAN. https://askubuntu.com/questions/990225/my-network-icon-is-always-a-question-mark-but-i-have-acces-to-internet seems to be (almost) the same, only that I have no question mark when on wi-fi. – MPi Jun 25 '18 at 09:00
  • Before changing the theme.. Try to access networks via settings and give any name to the existing LAN Connection. – PRATAP Jun 25 '18 at 09:03
  • I'm using Gnome now. I think I see the question mark when I am connected to the LAN but not to the Internet. Could this be the case? – Jos Jun 25 '18 at 09:03
  • @MPi can you go through these pics https://i.stack.imgur.com/zR70e.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/UdDRR.png https://i.stack.imgur.com/nj2Ml.png and try to off the connection once and on again. when i swtich on my desktop pc, for some minutes it will show that ? mark and then it becomes normal as you see in the pic. – PRATAP Jun 25 '18 at 09:23
  • @MPi please ignore my comments, i was referring to 18.04 where as your question related to 17.10. Thank You. – PRATAP Jun 25 '18 at 09:34
  • I see in your pictures that your wired connection has a rate label next to it (1000 MB/s). I do not have that. Perhaps the system is trying to figure out the speed and fails, thus setting the question mark? – MPi Jun 25 '18 at 12:18

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try this:

Question mark icon instead of wifi icon

Settings > Privacy > Connectivity Checking

Set it OFF. (Then, restart your WiFi connection, thanks to @Dante's comment below).

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    Well, it’s not WiFi in my case (look closely at the icon), but the same applies for wired connections. I would never have found this – it seems like quite a useless feature to me if it does not explain itself. – MPi Dec 05 '18 at 07:54
  • I was in the same spot: wired connection... but it solved my problem – KnF Dec 06 '18 at 12:37
  • +1 had issue with wired connection and turning off the 'Connectivity Checking' --> turning off 'Wired' --> enabling 'Wired' helped. – yoges nsamy Jan 02 '20 at 02:29