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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> Yieo Pompernickle
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