<div> To activate your connection you can do one of a few things: 1) As David says you could use the Network Montior Applet. If you do not have one right click on the Panel -> Select "Add to Panel" -> Scroll Down to Find "Network Monitor" -> now highlight and Add. You can now follow the steps he prescribed below. 2) You can access the same screen using the following System -> Administration -> Networking. It will ask you to enter your password and then allow you to configure or active devices,etc.. 3) From the Terminal you can use the following commands: To deactivate the device: sudo ifdown <device_name>     </div> Or to active the device: sudo ifup <device_name> So for wlan0 this would be: sudo ifdown wlan0 Or sudo ifup wlan0 Hope this helps, Dave <blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"> <pre>baza wrote: >On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:01 +0100, David Little wrote: > > >>baza wrote: >> >> >> >>> When my Breezy laptop, Dell Inspiron 2200, goes into standby mode for >>>any length on time the wifi appears to stop working. Only a reboot gets >>>the connection to my network back up. Is there any way I can turn on the >>>wifi without having to reboot? >>> >>>Baza >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Have you tried Network Monitor applet -> Properties -> Configure. >>It lets me turn wifi off and on on my Toshiba Portege as required. >> >>David >> >> >> > >For some reason best known to itself I don't appear to have one of >those. Do you know how I 'activate' it? > >Bazaz > > > > > Oh, and i have just rememberd, i once had no Network applet too, it was becuse i switched over to breezy too early and certain things were not ready, i recently killed my system and had to reinstall, upon upgrading (straight away, first thing i did after logging in) from 5.04 to 5.10 it came back, so i dont know if there is a fix, but a reinstall works :) Nick McMahon</pre> </blockquote>