No WiFi on Acer Aspire One, how to get it to detect it?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:32:48PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:27:12PM +0100, Axel Filmore wrote:
> > Le Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:41:16 +0000,
> > You'll need to :
> > 
> > sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
> > 
> OK, done.
> 
> > Then ensure that you have the following in "/etc/network/interfaces" :
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> > 
> Yes, that's there already (as one would expect).
> 
> > 
> > Then create a connection in network manager, don't forget to select
> > your network card.
> > 
> This is the next problem, I can run Network Manager but all the options
> to actually do anything are greyed out, it's as if I need root
> privileges but can't get them.  Should it pop-up a window asking for su
> password, it doesn't.
> 
It's OK, I've got it working. 

I had to "sudo -s" (to become root but retain user's environment and
then ran nm-connection-editor (the GUI for Network Manager).  Then I was
able to create a new WiFi connection and it burst into life as soon as I
created it!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green