On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:10:03 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bought my friend a Sony Vaio VPCEG to replace the failing Toshiba > Satellite. She was working on the Toshiba (connected to the 'Net via > the wireless AP here) while I installed xubuntu-11.10 without > networking on the Sony. Now I want to configure networking and get it > working upon boot/login, but I'm not having any success. > > As you well know, I don't know the Debian-based distributions such > as the ubuntus. I try 'iwconfig wlan0' but that does not bring it up; > ifconfig -a shows no network RUNNING. I've > left /etc/networks/interfaces as the installation default because > that's the way it appears in the working laptop. Same with /etc/host* > and /etc/networking. If this is a 'buntu disto, you're probably best off using NetworkManager. That is, so far as I know, the default for them, same as it is for Fedora. I don't know about straight Debian, though. There should be an icon in the info tray for NetworkManager if it's running. If it is, you can set up the networking from there -- right click on the icon and select "Edit Connections..." Select your interface and click "Edit..." Set it up as you want, and click the "Available to all users" checkbox. That may be your whole problem, right there. NM always seems to default to that being unchecked. (*grrr* *snarl* *snap!snap!*) Anyway, I hope this helps. --Dale -- You now have. Five. Minutes. To reach. Minimum. Safe. Distance. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
