Re: more on wifi no longer working under ubuntu
On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Alan White awhite0...@gmail.com wrote: Left to my own resources I'd back up all my /home files and do a fresh install of the latest LTS Ubuntu on that partition, and I'll need to do that SOON, but it surely seems like overkill for what seems (to me) to be a simple mis-configuration or other simple issue. I'm ALMOST there... I think. I'd also think it's misconfiguration. Can you make sure you have the Notification Area widget added to your panel? There's no arm in adding a new one to be sure, so you can do the following: 1) right click the top panel, select Add to panel 2) Scroll to Notification Area, click it and click Add The notification area widget will get added, and you should see at least nm-applet if nm-applet is running, and likely other things such as the volume meter and such. One answer to another question on here was use nm-cli to list, start and stop connections. Here's what I got: awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ nm-cli nm-cli: command not found awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ nmcli nmcli: command not found awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ Suggestions? nmcli wasn't available back in Ubuntu 9.10. It's a new feature I introduced in 10.10 -- made it get installed by the build process when I learned it was available. At this point the window popped up to ask me the password for my wireless network. The pulldown was grayed out. Only choice available was Cancel. So I chose that: I don't know why there would be a pull-down there, I just can't picture it. Maybe you could attach a screenshot? But usually, if it's asking you for a password, just enter something in the text field and the OK button will become active. If you send a screenshot, make sure it's one of the full screen, maybe we can notice something that will clarify what is going on. Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre mathieu...@ubuntu.com Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 ___ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
more on wifi no longer working under ubuntu
Please note that when it comes to NetworkManager I'm a newbie and a user, not a programmer; my goal is to (AGAIN) have WiFi come up when booting/logging in, as it used to before an automatic upgrade via Ubuntu from 9.04 to 9.? (but before 9.10). This posting is not on the same high technical level as most of the postings here, but the lack of WiFi under Linux is certainly an issue for me. WiFi works just fine under Windows Vista when booting that OS on the same laptop, so the wireless hardware is not an issue. Left to my own resources I'd back up all my /home files and do a fresh install of the latest LTS Ubuntu on that partition, and I'll need to do that SOON, but it surely seems like overkill for what seems (to me) to be a simple mis-configuration or other simple issue. I'm ALMOST there... I think. Thanks for any assistance. Alan One answer to another question on here was use nm-cli to list, start and stop connections. Here's what I got: awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ nm-cli nm-cli: command not found awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ nmcli nmcli: command not found awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ Suggestions? Continuing, the answer said you can connect with VNC to your server to create initial connection settings or you could import/set everything gconftool-2. Does this apply if my server is a wireless router? I will check a discussion about that: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-November/msg00082.html; = nm-applet did not appear in the notification area. I killed the process, which was sleeping, and typed: awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ nm-applet [1] 5381 awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ libnotify-Message: GetServerInformation call failed: Too few arguments in reply libnotify-Message: Error getting spec version ** Message: info No keyring secrets found for phillips/802-11-wireless-security; asking user. ** (nm-applet:5381): WARNING **: security_combo_changed: no active security combo box item. ** (nm-applet:5381): WARNING **: security_combo_changed: no active security combo box item. == At this point the window popped up to ask me the password for my wireless network. The pulldown was grayed out. Only choice available was Cancel. So I chose that: awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ ** (nm-applet:5381): WARNING **: applet-device-wifi.c.1643 (get_secrets_dialog_response_cb): canceled ** (nm-applet:5381): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting 'State' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3: Method Get with signature ss on interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties doesn't exist ** (nm-applet:5381): WARNING **: _nm_object_get_property: Error getting 'Default' for /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/3: Method Get with signature ss on interface org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties doesn't exist ** (nm-applet:5381): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 9 ** (nm-applet:5381): DEBUG: going for offline with icon: notification-network-wireless-disconnected nm-applet never did appear in the notification area. == https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/internet/C/troubleshooting-wireless.html#troubleshooting-wireless-connection: Check for device recognition: awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ sudo lshw -C network [sudo] password for awhite: *-network description: Ethernet interface product: MCP77 Ethernet vendor: nVidia Corporation physical id: a bus info: p...@:00:0a.0 logical name: eth0 version: a2 serial: 00:1f:16:7f:e7:ac size: 100MB/s capacity: 100MB/s width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 duplex=full ip=192.168.0.71 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s resources: irq:26 memory:c0009000-c0009fff ioport:30f8(size=8) memory:c0007c00-c0007cff memory:c0007800-c000780f *-network description: Wireless interface product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Atheros Communications Inc. physical id: 0 bus info: p...@:07:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 01 serial: 00:24:2c:6e:54:a2 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg resources: irq:23 memory:c200-c200 awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ What should this tell me? = Check for a connection to the router: 1. Open a Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the command: iwconfig. 2. If the ESSID for our router is shown there may be a problem with ACPI support. Boot the kernel with the pci=noacpi option. awh...@awhite:/etc/NetworkManager$ iwconfig
