Wireless network problem after upgrade to 8.04

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Ken McLennan wrote:
>
>> G'day there Paul,
> ...
>>> So in the terminal again, make sure the network-manager is running
>>>
>>> # /etc/init.d/network-manager restart
>>>
>>     I don't have a 'network-manager' there, only a 'networking' entry.
>> Is that the same?
>
> Ahem.  Paul, network-manager doesn't start out of init.d, it starts from
> dbus:  "sudo /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager restart"
>

Au contraire, mon brother! :)

At least for me, there is there is a script in /etc/init.d

pauljohn at pols123:/etc/init.d$ ls -la network*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1772 2007-12-03 14:50 networking
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1746 2008-05-08 19:31 network-manager

I agree there is also a script in /etc/dbus-1.  I'm from Fedora-land,
and I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the way Ubuntu manages
services, but I am here to testify that I do

/etc/init.d/network-manager restart

when I have trouble, and it works!




>>     If it's any use, this is the result of stopping & starting the
>> init.d/networking command:
> ...
>> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
>> wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
>> Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:d2:75:cf:ff
>> Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:19:d2:75:cf:ff
>> Sending on   Socket/fallback
>> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
>
> That looks rather serious.
>

It is not serious.  I have that iwl3945 device too and that always
appears in the logs.  I was assured by the Fedora guys that it was no
big deal.


>> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
>> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
>> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
>> No DHCPOFFERS received.
>> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
>

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