<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> The best thing to do is plug in the ethernet wire to your ethernet port > To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > From: news@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@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 > > > -- > ubuntu-users mailing list > ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users <hr />Now you can invite friends from Facebook and other groups to join you on Windows Live™ Messenger. <a href='https://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_AddNow_Now' target='_new'>Add them now!</a></body> </html>