Yesterday evening, when I got home from work, I fired up my laptop. After a while, I went to check messages and found it wasn't on the intraweb. I looked and saw KNetworkManager wasn't running in the system tray.
Restarting it by going to root and typing in the command did nothing. I - being a good Windows user - rebooted a few times for good measure. I also rebooted my D-Link router, which has been working fine with this laptop since I got in in July '05. This morning I got on and the same thing. I could not connect to my SSID, even with KNetworkManager now running. I COULD connect to my neighbors' unencrypted WiFi networks. Looking at /tail var log messages I got nothing about the etherweb or even anything about lost tokens in the ethernet: sith:/home/kai # tail /var/log/messages Feb 22 04:34:11 sith SuSEfirewall2: Firewall rules successfully set Feb 22 04:34:21 sith kernel: eth1: no IPv6 routers present Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): starting (version 2.12.1), pid 3952 user 'kai' Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/kai/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 Feb 22 04:34:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/opt/gnome/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Feb 22 04:38:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): GConf server is not in use, shutting down. Feb 22 04:38:22 sith gconfd (kai-3952): Exiting sith:/home/kai # Not sure what gconf is, but I don't use Gnome, so I am not sure if I need to care. In any case, I finally got it running by completely re-entering my credentials for the WEP key. (The WiFi is also locked down by MAC address and only allows a few laptops on.) What happened? What else could I have done? What should I do to prevent this? (I actually did lookup GConf - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GConf - and see it is sort of like the registry. I wonder if regedit will work...) -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
