On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 23:49, Stan Goodman wrote:
On Tuesday 22 March 2011 at 00:48:50 (GMT+2) Mark Misulich wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 17:47 -0400, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 23:40 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
This is on a laptop running oS v11.4 / kde v4.6
I was using the machine, connected wireless. I wanted to make sure that kmail wouild be isolated temporarily from the network, so I opened the networkmanager icon and unchecked wireless.
Now I want to restore the network to normal operation. I cannot cause the networkmanager icon to reappear. Clicking on the "Show hidden icons" lists "Network Management"; clicking on that shows:
Network management disabled <-- greyed out Enable networking <-- checked Enable wireless. <-- checked
In switching from ifup control to networkmanager control, a dialog box appears informing me that "Applet needed", and informing me that if it is installed, I should start it manually; but running knetworkmanager in konsole does nothing except return to the prompt.
The system's response to any attempt to reach out to the world is "No network running".
A search reports lots of reported problems about networkmanager, but I haven't found this one yet.
How can I
Hi Stan, try this:
Gecko--> Applications Tab --> System --> Desktop Applet --> NetworkManager
that should get it running. Click on the applet in the taskbar, and enable wireless.
Hi, I think that I misread your question in the last post, I thought that you had reenabled connect with networkmanager in yast global settings. If you are still using ifup and can't connect, go back to networkmanager in yast. Sometimes ifup doesn't work in 11.3 and 11.4 for no apparent reason.
I have tried connecting with both ifup and the networkmanager, with equal !results.
I've seen this behavior... male sure your settings are where they should be - ie you've still got network manager enabled (but possibly not seeing the network) and then reboot. Reboot should hopefully work to wake things back up and get all working again - at least it has for me when I've been stuck in the same situation. For what it's worth, I've seen the same thing happen on non-Linux OSes. Flip the software switch to turn off the WiFi and that's it... it's off until the laptop is restarted, and no amount of fiddling in the software will get the WiFi to restart. Note this is not every time... just sometimes... on some hardware... Of course this is not optimal, and a bug report is probably in order if a simple reboot "fixes" things. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org