NetworkManager & wifi

[Hamish]

On Monday 26 June 2006 02:06, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> Michal Ludvig wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just migrated from OpenSUSE 10.1 to Kubuntu Dapper. I liked the
> > NetworkManager applet in SuSE so I installed NetworkManager to Kubuntu
> > as well. After reboot and relogin the NM daemon is running and I have
> > the applet icon in status bar. However only "Wired" (ethernet)
> > connection appear in the menu. I can't see any wireless ones. Actually
> > the "wireless" section isn't there at all in the pop-up menu, just
> > "Wired" one.
> >
> > OTOH Wireless assistant shows me all available networks and lets me join
> > the one of my choice so it isn't a problem with my card (fwiw it's
> > RaLink rt2500, but I had the same issue with Atheros-based one as well).
> >
> > How can I configure NetworkManager to let me manage all my connections
> > in one place just as the one in SUSE does?
>
> I had the same problem, though I am using Ubuntu, not Kubuntu,
> Dapper.
>
> On the advice of someone on this list, I *disabled* the wireless
> network connection in System -> Admin -> Networking. After that,
>   both the wired and wireless networks showed up in the menu
> displayed from the Network Manager icon.
>
> --Jean

Same issues here, but a different fix, I just commented out everything 
in /etc/network/interfaces apart from
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
and it worked fine.
HTH
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