On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:54 PM, derek starr<[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > I have an icon on my panel bar that shows two computer terminal screens on > top of each other. Is that the network icon? When I click on that icon, it > shows the following lines in a small window: > Wired Network ( highlited in a gray color ) > Auto eth0 ( highlited in a black color, with black dot on the left ) > Wireless Networks ( highlited in a gray color ) > wireless is disabled ( highlited in a gray color ) > VPN connections ( highlited in a black color, with a right arrow on the > right )
The icon of the two computer terminals is the network icon, aka nm-applet icon. > > As I said previously, when I try to activiate 'wlan1' in NetWorkManager, I > always get an error message box, saying 'wlan1' cannot be activated. The > dialog message box never says why 'wlan1' cannot be activated. > > Can you, or anybody else, help me? I am just not very good about figuring > out how the GNOME NetworkManager works. What is the manufacturer and model of your wireless networking card? When you try to activate 'wlan1', what does NetworkManager report in /var/log/messages? Rod _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
