On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

[Nio Wiklund]

2014-05-08 19:05, Pierre Gobin skrev:
> 
> Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit :
>> 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev:
>>> On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>> When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with
>>>> or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't.
>>> Nio:
>>>
>>> I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by
>>> running the live CD or live USB, and on those (test) systems, I don't
>>> have access to my e-mail when I do that.
>>>
>>> I did not use a command-line interface to access it (I avoid that if at
>>> all possible).
>>>
>>> I right-clicked on the panel (in an area without any icon, and chose
>>> "Add/Remove Panel Items" from the pop-up menu.
>>>
>>> I then clicked the "Add" button of the "Panel Preferences" window that
>>> appeared (with the "Panel Applets" tab selected).  I don't normally have
>>> to do this, because the network (or wireless) icon is already in the
>>> panel when the live CD (or USB) finishes booting.
>>>
>>> I then selected "Manage Networks" from the list of available plugins,
>>> and clicked the "Add" button.
>>>
>>> I then selected "Network Status Monitor" from the list of available
>>> plugins, and clicked the "Add" button.
>>>
>>> Then I fumbled around with those additional applets, right or left
>>> clicking on them, and in one combination, I actually got a list of
>>> wireless networks, of which I selected my network, and tried to connect
>>> to it (by clicking on it?).
>>>
>>> A simple dialog appeared, asking me to enter the "Encryption key" in a
>>> text box, which I carefully typed in (because I can't see what I'm
>>> typing), and hit the enter-key (or clicked the button to process the
>>> information).
>>>
>>> Nothing appeared to happen.  There was no error message, but the network
>>> did not connect, and the icon didn't change in any way indicating it was
>>> trying to connect.
>>>
>>> With that not working, I specified "System Tools" (or maybe it was
>>> "Preferences") from the task-bar menu, and then selected "Network
>>> Connections" (or something like that).
>>>
>>> That yielded a simple dialog with 3 tabs, and nothing like what I've
>>> used in the past to configure a wireless network.  In that simple
>>> dialog, I did not discover anything that would let me configure a
>>> wireless network.
>>>
>> Hi again Aere,
>>
>> It works for me with
>>
>> gksudo nm-applet &
>>
>> from a terminal window in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS. This is 'a tweak' included
>> in the OBI tarball described here
>>
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172971&p=13016768#post13016768
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
> 
> I saw many users with problems to connect to networks after running
> "nm-applet" with root permissions.
> 
> To have nm-applet at startup, I only added "nm-applet" in "Default apps
> for LXSession", in the tab "Autostart". This solved the problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Pierre Gobin
> 
> 
Hi Pierre,

This is quite messy. How come it works better with root permissions in
some cases and without root permissions in other cases?

Anyway I will try your solution and let you know the result.

Best regards
Nio