So you will need to turn off wifi manually at times. NOTE: at this point, your computer will always have wifi on when you plug an ethernet cable. No => Go back to 3) and keep messing with your bios.ĥ) unplug the ethernet cable, stay connected to wifi. Enable your wifi, connect through wifi, then plug an ethernet cable and confirm that you have a DUAL network with both connections active: is wifi still on after connecting an ethernet cable?
Wireless options -> check for LAN/WLAN, and turn off the settings or mess with them.Ĥ) restart windows. device options: WLAN / LAN switch: if on, turn it off. Didn't use to be a problem, but apparently an update of windows causes the VPN connection to appear as a physical LAN device, and trips the BIOS.ģ) restart and check your BIOS for the following: Happens to Windows 10 and other versions of windows. Yes => then windows is disabling your WIFI because it detected a new LAN connection.
After many hours of troubleshooting, found out that this has nothing to do with OpenVPN but everything to do about windows.ġ) does openvpn work over a wired connection?Ģ) does openvpn connect over a wifi connection but fails after 1 mn?
