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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Yieo Pompernickle <<a href="mailto:v-repl@online.no">v-repl@online.no</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> * Kai Presler-Marshall (2010-09-24 13:16): <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > 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! </div></div>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, <a href="http://thinkwiki.org" target="_blank">thinkwiki.org</a> has tons of Ubuntu-specific info for Thinkpad Users. Lots of tips and goodies there! -- Yieo Pompernickle <a href="mailto:yieo@online.no">yieo@online.no</a> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>