Re: USB WLAN device does not show up

[Philipp Hagemeister <phihag phihag de>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 00:48 +0100, Philipp Hagemeister wrote:
> (...)
> when I attach my USB WLAN stick (Netgear WG111v2), I can see it with the
> commands iwconfig/ifconfig, but not in NetworkManager.
> (...)
> Also make sure you've removed that interface
>> from /etc/network/interfaces because having it there makes it invisible
>> to NetworkManager on Ubuntu platforms.

Thank you, that was the problem. Apparently, knetworkmanager adds some
lines to /etc/network/interfaces in manual configuration mode.

Thanks for your fast answer (and Happy Holidays),

Philipp Hagemeister

>> Dan
> I am using NetworkManager 0.6.5 as bundled in Ubuntu.
>
> I attached a few debugging information files:
>
> * nm-tool: Output of nm-tool, just to illustrate wlan0 is missing.
> * NetworkManager: partial output of sudo NetworkManager --no-daemon when
> connecting and disconnecting the stick
> * hal-device-diff: A diff of hal-device with stick attached and off
>
> The strange thing is, I could have sworn it worked perfectly before I
> rebooted the machine and reconnected the USB WLAN stick. Furthermore, in
> the manual settings configuration of knetworkmanager, the stick *does*
> show up (Does anyone know why?). I attached a log of its debugging
> information (knetworkmanager).
>
> Any ideas? How can I completely reset every setting of NetworkManager?
> (I tried apt-get purge network-manager) Did I miss a more useful
> debugging tool?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Philipp Hagemeister

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