Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-30 Thread José Queiroz
There used to be a control in file /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings that could be used to enable NM to manage interfaces configured in "/etc/network/interfaces": (...) [ifupdown] managed=false (...) --- Changing this line to "true" and restarting NM use to activ

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Dan You are another Network Manager angel! Now all is well with my network manager. Hopefully all I will need at home is a key for my router and all will be well there too. Cheers! > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:06 -0800, shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> When I click the Network Man

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Dan Williams
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:06 -0800, shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: > Hi folks > > When I click the Network Manager Icon (Ubuntu 9.10) it says: > > Wired Networks > device not managed By default, the debian/Ubuntu plugin for NetworkManager settings will ignore any devices that are listed in /etc/ne

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Hi Tony I rebooted and now wireless works! You are a networking angel! I will see if it works with my home network later today. Thanks s much. > shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Thanks again Tony >> >> There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which >> I never notice

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Tony Espy
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: Thanks again Tony There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which I never noticed before. I have turned wireless on but still not working. Have you tried re-booting after turning it on? Strangely Ubuntu 9.04 was unaffected by this hardware

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
After turning the wireless switch to on rfkill now reports that it is no longer hard blocked but is still soft blocked. I imagine that rfkill will allow me to unblock now but how can I make this change permanently in the appropriate config file? > shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Hi Tony >> >> Tha

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Thanks again Tony There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which I never noticed before. I have turned wireless on but still not working. Strangely Ubuntu 9.04 was unaffected by this hardware switch. Wireless worked out-of-the-box for 9.04! Why is there a wireless kill swi

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Tony Espy
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Tony Thanks for the info. Similar bugs have been reported to Ubuntu and there oddly appears to be no fix yet. That's because it's not a single bug. First, there are many brands of Wi-Fi cards each requiring different drivers. This is then compounded by the f

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Hi Tony Thanks for the info. Similar bugs have been reported to Ubuntu and there oddly appears to be no fix yet. "rfkill list" tells me that wireless LAN is hard blocked. Do you know how to unblock? Thanks again > shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> When I click the Network Manager

Re: net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread Tony Espy
shelt...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hi folks When I click the Network Manager Icon (Ubuntu 9.10) it says: Wired Networks device not managed Wireless Networks wireless is disabled I did not disable wireless and I have no idea why the wired network would not be managed by NetworkManager. How do I en

net manager wireless disabled

2010-01-29 Thread sheltraw
Hi folks When I click the Network Manager Icon (Ubuntu 9.10) it says: Wired Networks device not managed Wireless Networks wireless is disabled I did not disable wireless and I have no idea why the wired network would not be managed by NetworkManager. How do I enable wireless and manage wired