Re: How To Tell NetworkManager There's a Wireless Interface To Manage?

i use RutilT, on slackware 13.37 and it work perfect job for me. hope this
help

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:21 PM, TuxaneMedia <[email protected]> wrote:

> Rich,
>
> Somewhere in WICD 's configuration you should find an option called
> " Always use Wired Connection if available"
> Make sure it is unchecked.
>
> The existance of a wired and a wireless interface at the same time
> should not cause any problem.
> Normally the wireless  always wins over the wired.
>
> You migth check dmesg , why the wlan0 is not brought up at boot time.
> Maybe the module doesn't get loaded ?
> rfkill has a hard and a softblock option to verify, also.
>
> actually the interface should be visible from ifconfig after boot, but
> without an ip4 address.
> This is where wicd would kick in to cope with the encryption and make
> the connection and run dhcpcd.
>
> Anyway you should not need to use an usb device, as it will maybe even
> make things more compicated
>
> Good luck
> Jens
>
> Am 23.05.2012 02:15, schrieb Rich Shepard:
> > On Tue, 22 May 2012, John Crowhurst wrote:
> >
> >> #1 Use an external USB wireless adapter, if that works fine you know
> >> its a problem with the hardware in some way.
> >
> > John,
> >
> >   No difference. Tried with Xubuntu-11.10 live CD, too.
> >
> >> #2 Take out the internal wireless adapter in the Dell and swap it for
> >> the
> >> one in the Sony and vice versa. If the Dell behaves like the Sony
> >> did, you
> >> have a problem with the wireless adapter. Seek a replacement one similar
> >> to the working one and use that instead. If the Sony still plays up, its
> >> more likely to be the Ethernet on the Sony that is the problem.
> >
> >   It's almost certainly not hardware because the system sees WAPs but
> > with
> > WICD could not send packets over wlan0 because eth0 had routes with lower
> > metric numbers. With NM there are no eth0 routes when that interface
> > is not
> > active. In the next day or so I'll take the Sony to a local coffee
> > shop and
> > see if it can connect and communicate after being manually started by
> > root
> > running 'ifconfig wlan0 up.'
> >
> > More when I have it,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
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