Network manager problem

[Kenneth P. Turvey]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:27:05 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 02:28 +0000, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
>> But then it quit.  It used to list the nearby wireless
>> networks and allow me to connect to them.  It would even automatically
>> connect if I had connected to them before.  Now it doesn't do any of
>> that. There is no indication that it is doing anything.  When I click
>> on it there is a grayed out menu item with "wired network" in it and
>> an enabled menu item that says "manual configuration".  There isn't
>> anything else.
> 
> My laptop has a button to toggle the state of WLAN and bluetooth.
> Sometimes the cat walks over the laptop and steps on the button. Then
> the WLAN goes off, and I cannot reenable it due to the same symptoms you
> see. Does your laptop also have a button? :)

It does, but that doesn't seem to be the problem.  I know I enabled and
disabled the wireless numerous times before this occurred without any
problems.  I've been connecting to the wireless networks using iwconfig,
but this isn't the ideal solution.  

Thanks.



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Kenneth P. Turvey <kt-usenet at squeakydolphin.com>