[ubuntu-uk] breezy wfi question

[Dave Meikle]

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>

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

 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
>
>
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