WiFi Issue

Kai Presler-Marshall kaipresler at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 12:27:46 UTC 2010


I'm very familiar with Thinkwiki, I love it ;)

My desktop (with the wifi issue) has no switch on it, just the laptop.  I'll
try the nm-aplet tonight.

Oh, and I also tried rebooting--worth a shot, no?  I thought so :p

Kai Presler-Marshall

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Yieo Pompernickle <v-repl at online.no> wrote:

> * Kai Presler-Marshall (2010-09-24 13:16):
>
> >    Hey guys,
> >    I'm a Ubuntu user on my Lenovo Thinkpad T400 since April of this year,
> >    and I've loved it.  To the point that I'm not using the copy of
> >    Windows 7 Pro that I paid for.  Last night I decided that I'd also put
> >    Kubuntu 10.04 on my desktop (Intel Core i7 860 @ stock, Asus P7P55D
> >    Pro, nVidia GTX260).  When I'm logged in to KDE, everything (wifi,
> >    sound, etc), works great.  I also have GNOME installed because I like
> >    to switch between them (the same way on my laptop).  However, when I'm
> >    logged into GNOME, the WiFi doesn't work.  There's no icon on the top
> >    panel, and running ifconfig wlan0 shows it as disconnected.  Ideas?
> >    I'd really like to be able to use GNOME as well as KDE.
> >    Thanks!
>
> I don't know about KDE, but Gnome uses nm-applet by default. Do you get
> any kind of network icon on the top panel by doing ALT+F2 -> nm-applet ?
>
> Sometimes when using wireless in Awesomewm on my T60, I have to left click
> the
> nm-applet icon and check "Enable Wireless" even though I never disabled
> it. Don't ask me why. Worth a try?
>
> And then of course, there's that time when I spent several days trying to
> get
> wireless to work on my fresh Ubuntu install before realizing the
> physical switch in front was off... :-)
>
> BTW, thinkwiki.org has tons of Ubuntu-specific info for Thinkpad Users.
> Lots of tips and goodies there!
>
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>
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