Thanks Vern. I managed to get wireless up using iwconfig and dhclient.
The strange part is that once I get the network up using that, the nm-applet appears in the notification area with the signal strength info like it usually does. Could this be an issue with nm-applet starting and not finding some needed service or other dependency? On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 20:56 -0400, Vern Ceder wrote: > Hey Jon, > > Have you tried killing nm-applet and then running it from the > commandline? It's possible it might print an error message to the console... > > As far as configuring wifi from the commandline, iwlist, iwconfig and > dhclient would be the three things I would use... iwlist scanning will > show you the info on access points, iwlist will take care of > associating, etc. and of course dhclient gets an ip address. > > Cheers, > Vern > > Jon wrote: > > I'm running the Ibex beta on my laptop (IBM T40) and an update applied > > yesterday caused the network manager applet to no longer function. I > > have applied updates today and it hasn't fixed it. So I'm trying to see > > if I can find an existing bug for it or at least sort out how to provide > > relevant info. > > > > According to `ps aux | grep nm` nm-applet is running with the > > --sm-disable flag set. nm-applet does not appear in either the > > notification area nor the applet list for the Gnome panel. Attempting to > > kill and restart nm-applet yields no output nor responsiveness. > > nm-applet has no manpage. Wired network works just fine. > > > > Any ideas for where to start to find useful info for this issue? > > > > How would I configure my wireless card manually from the terminal? I > > have a hidden SSID and WEP encryption. > > > -- -- Jon Bartels [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
