Did a little experiment on boot today. I booted into safe mode. When I landed at the root command prompt I typed "ifconfig" and discovered that the network was working fine at that point. ifconfig reported my IP address and I was able to ping the internet.
I then did "telinit 5" to complete the boot process, logged in and found that the wireless card had had it's ESSID unset (or set to "") and I no longer had a network. The usual sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart was then required to get networking back. As an aside, the networking icon at the top of the screen continues to report the network being disconnected, even once I am connected. Would you like more info? Should I wait until the login screen, go to a different terminal and check for the network? Or is the above info enough to pin it on gnome-system-tools? Let me know. -- Changing ESSID requires reboot or, or manual iwconfig for changes to take effect https://launchpad.net/bugs/80499 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
