Wireless network problem after upgrade to 8.04

[Brendan Strunk]

The best thing to do is plug in the ethernet wire to your ethernet port

> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> From: news at pointerstop.ca
> Subject: Re: Wireless network problem after upgrade to 8.04
> Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:31:08 -0300
> 
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> OK, then, "the network-manager package no longer installs anything
> in /etc/init.d". :-)  If you have "dlocate" installed, it would be
> informative to run "dlocate /etc/init.d/network-manager" to see just where
> yours came from.  Anyway, Ken probably doesn't have it, as it moved into
> dbus a release or two back.
> 
> > 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!
> > 
> Well, back when I had a flaky network and was always messing with
> network-manager, I used to do that too.  So it was a little annoying when
> it disappeared.
> 
> >>>     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.
> 
> OK, that's sort of good and bad - we know _that's_ not the problem, but we
> still don't know what is :-)  Do you get that "wmaster0" error, too?
> -- 
> derek
> 
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