Okay so when I arrived this evening I found that network manager says that wireless disabled again. Looking at /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state:
[main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=false WWANEnabled=true So I change WirelessEnabled to true then tried to restart network manager. Restart was successful, but wireless was still disabled and NetworkManage.state was back to the above settings. Tried the ff to restart network manager sudo restart network-manager sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart sudo initctl restart network-manager All of the three were successful at restarting network manager, but not enabling wireless. Any ideas? I'll keep my notebook wired for tonight in case suggestions come in. Hmmm, when is 11.04 coming out? Maybe I can upgrade over the Holy Week break. As for the webcam, I haven't encountered the problem again so haven't had a chance to investigate. Thanks Johann On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Michael Tinsay <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > ------------------------------ > *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 > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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