On your wifi concern, I've had similar experience with Lucid (10.04) in the
past. When it gets disabled, take a look at the file
/var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state, and see if the NetworkingEnabled
key is set to "false" -- this should be "true". I wasn't able to track down
why this is being set to "false" every now and then, but I don't encounter it
anymore since I upgrade to Maverick (10.10).
As for you webcam, lsusb or lspci should tell you what brand of webcam you have.
--- mike t.
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From: Johann Vincent Paul Tagle <[email protected]>
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] wifi and webcam intermittently disabled/undetected
Hello all,
I've using Ubuntu 8.04, then 9.04, and now finally 10.04 (all 64bit) on a Dell
Vostro 1500 notebook with 4 GB memory. Lately I've been encountering things
like the wifi being disabled or the webcam not being detected. With the wifi
(Broadcom BCM94312MCG), when I notice upon bootup that the wifi LED not being
on, I turn it off and on using the physical switch. The LED will turn on, but
Network Manager still doesn't detect it. I only noticed the webcam (I don't
know how to check the make for this) being disabled only once since I rarely
use it - though I might be using it more frequently now due to teleworking.
Most of the time a restart brings things back to normal. I however would like
to investigate this further to see if I should be preparing to replace my
hardware soon (it's more than 3 years old) and if I can at least temporarily
address the symptoms without having to restart. Any pointers? Thanks.
Johann
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