Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't. Nio: I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by running the live CD or live USB, and on those (test)

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't. Nio: I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by running

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Pierre Gobin
Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit : 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't. Nio: I would tell you precisely, but I

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
Nio: I just ran the live CD on my primary system, and saw that when it finishes initializing, there is no network applet in the task-bar, even though there was a working ethernet cable connection. The lack of that applet is probably what causes the problem. I think my problem, was that

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 19:05, Pierre Gobin skrev: Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit : 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't.

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/08/2014 11:05 AM, Pierre Gobin wrote: I saw many users with problems to connect to networks after running nm-applet with root permissions. To have nm-applet at startup, I only added nm-applet in Default apps for LXSession, in the tab Autostart. This solved the problem. Pierre: This

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Nio Wiklund
2014-05-08 19:16, Nio Wiklund skrev: 2014-05-08 19:05, Pierre Gobin skrev: Le 08/05/2014 18:49, Nio Wiklund a écrit : 2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev: On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with or without gksudo?

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-08 Thread Aere Greenway
Pierre Nio: I tested several things. First, I selected (from the main menu) Preferences...Network Connections, which brought up a configuration tool that allowed me to successfully configure my wireless network. The nm-applet in the task-bar (inserted by right clicking on the panel) shows

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless

2014-05-08 Thread farinet
lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: Hi Pierre, This is quite messy. How come it works better with root permissions in some cases and without root permissions in other cases? Anyway I will try your solution and let you know the result. Best regards Nio I had the same problem

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless

2014-05-08 Thread Israel
On 05/08/2014 03:43 PM, fari...@arcor.de wrote: lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: Hi Pierre, This is quite messy. How come it works better with root permissions in some cases and without root permissions in other cases? Anyway I will try your solution and let you know the result.

On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread Aere Greenway
All: I attempted to install Lubuntu 14.04 on two more of my test machines, and could not do it in both cases. In the first machine, the live CD booted, but there was nothing in the task-bar indicating a wireless network was present, though it booted with a wireless dongle plugged-in that

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread Israel
Hey Aere, some quick clarification questions... Did you test this Dongle with Ubuntu Studio 14.04 (or one of the other respins?) Did you say that those dongles worked on *some* machines with 14.04 but not the other machines? If that is the case... my initial guess is it could possibly be the USB.

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/07/2014 07:50 PM, Israel wrote: Did you test this Dongle with Ubuntu Studio 14.04 (or one of the other respins?) Did you say that those dongles worked on *some* machines with 14.04 but not the other machines? If that is the case... my initial guess is it could possibly be the USB. If it

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread Israel
That is extremely bizarre Did you use the same disk image that was successful before? I know you said the md5sum checked out... but it is odd that you should get something so different. You can check to see if wpa-supplicant is installed (I am pretty sure that is the name). I am kinda out of

Re: On Lubuntu 14.04, No Wireless on 2 machines that wireless worked on 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread Aere Greenway
On 05/07/2014 08:44 PM, Israel wrote: That is extremely bizarre Did you use the same disk image that was successful before? I know you said the md5sum checked out... but it is odd that you should get something so different. Israel: I now partially understand the bizarre. The live CD I