<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffff66"> It is my current belief that the message seen on shutdown (HP G60, Ubuntu 10.10.1, Atheros 5K) that Network Manager is deconfiguring network interfaces is part of the issue with wireless no longer working with Network Manager. In any event, I'd like to be able to again use this laptop with wireless! Soon! Thanks. Is there a replacement for NetworkManager on Ubuntu that allows wireless to work again? It works great under Windows Vista Home Premium on the same laptop... ============================================ Timothy Murphy wrote in response to James J Catchpole: I'm no expert, but the 3 things I try when NM doesn't work (not an infrequent occurrence): 1. Run "sudo iwlist scan". If that sees something then the problem is certainly with the NM setup. MY RESULT: awhite@author:~$ sudo iwlist scan [sudo] password for awhite: lo Interface doesn't support scanning. eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning. wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down wlan1 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down 2. Try the network service instead of NM; sudo service NetworkManager stop MY RESULT: awhite@author:~$ sudo service NetworkManager stop NetworkManager: unrecognized service So I thought I'd try this also: awhite@author:~$ sudo service NetworkManager restart NetworkManager: unrecognized service sudo service network restart MY RESULT: awhite@author:~$ sudo service network restart network: unrecognized service 3. Check that the entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 is reasonably accurate. MY RESULT: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0" [New DIRECTORY] 4. Check /var/log/messages (I pulled out a few but there are MANY messages) MY RESULT: Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 14.984775] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23 Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 14.984866] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: registered as 'phy0' Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 15.495926] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70) Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 15.519317] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt2500usb Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 16.877108] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 17.017750] eth0: no link during initialization. Dec 26 21:56:14 author kernel: [ 17.018424] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready Dec 26 21:56:15 author kernel: [ 17.611781] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver Dec 26 21:56:19 author kernel: [ 21.990031] CPUFREQ: Per core ondemand sysfs interface is deprecated - up_threshold Dec 26 21:57:22 author kernel: [ 84.991868] eth0: link up. Dec 26 21:57:22 author kernel: [ 84.992560] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready ADDITIONALLY: $ ifconfig wlan0 (nm-applet reports this as Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter, "device not ready") wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2c:6e:54:a2 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) $ ifconfig wlan1 (nm-applet reports this as Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, "device not ready") wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0e:2e:86:80:68 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Alan White <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:awhite0006@gmail.com">awhite0006@gmail.com</a> </pre> </body> </html>