On Sun, 2011-03-13 at 12:29 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 03/13/2011 11:22 AM, José Queiroz wrote: > > Hi Larry, > > > > Are you using a Dell laptop? A recent kernel change broke the WMI support to > > some dell hardware. If it's your case, try blacklisting dell-laptop modules > > and > > reseting your machine. > > No, this is an HP. I am not loading any wmi modules. > > One more piece of info. As I said earlier, switching from knetworkmanager to > the > plasmoid allowed it to work. I then switched back to knetworkmanager (I like > it > better), and wireless still worked. > > Larry
There are two blocks to wifi in 0.8.2 and later: rfkill, and user preference as controlled by the "Wireless Enabled" checkbox; I'm not sure where that lives in the KDE bits, but it's there. They are completely independent at this time, but if either one is blocking the radio NM will say wifi is off. If you look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/daemon.log, or /var/log/NetworkManager.log (depending on your distro) you'll see lines about both rfkill and the wifi state that should tell you what's going on. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
