KNetworkManager often ignores wireless

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Sat Feb 27 07:59:06 UTC 2010


On Saturday 27 February 2010, lanzen wrote:
> On Saturday 27 February 2010 08:27:43 Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> > However, what does “deactivating device (reason: 2)” mean? What
> > is the meaning of the state change from “down” to “idle”?
> 
> As I had no idea and wanted to know I googled a bit a and the
> following came out:
> 
> -------> quote <------------------
> Reason 2 means the server is up, but that it couldn’t create a
> connection with your client. In the vast majority of cases, if
> you see Reason 2, it is because you have a firewall installed.
> [...]
> -------> quote end <------------------
> 
> Taken from:
> http://www.kongregate.com/forums/14-battalion-arena/topics/60498-w
> hats-the- deal-with-reason-2

Seeing as Wolfgang is asking about NM and not "Battalion: Arena", I 
don't see the relevance in this case.
Also, I doubt that there is a firewall blocking the loopback 
interface...

  --Reinhold




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