Re: Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize

[Timothy Murphy <gayleard eircom net>]

James J Catchpole wrote:

> Wireless Connection Fails to Initialize; adapter is accessible (Green
> Light is On) but NetworkManager is unable to access; see information
> below. Of course the problem may be in the Kernel but its difficult to
> know.

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.

2. Try the network service instead of NM;
	sudo service NetworkManager stop
	sudo service network restart

3. Check that the entry in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
is reasonably accurate.

4. Check /var/log/messages .
Unfortunately NM produces so much verbiage in that file
it is quite difficult to pick out the relevant lines.

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