On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> NetworkManager and nm-applet are working just fine for the eth0 > interface, > but not yet for the wlan0 interface. When there's no ethernet cable > attached > the wifi radio should come on and neighborhood access points become > visible. > That's not the case. > > Symptoms: > - nm-applet will not allow me to enable wireless networking (so it > can't be configured either). > > - The radio switch is in the 'on' position but the light remains dark. > > - Running 'rfkill list' shows that none of the three wireless lans > (acer-wireless, sony-wifi, phy0) is hard blocked, but the > acer-wireless LAN is soft blocked. > > note that running the scan command from the command line did show wireless networks available. this indicates the issue is specific to network-manager... we just have to figure out how to tell it that "yes, there really is a wireless network there for you to manage." more specifically, we have to figure out the Slackware way of giving Network Manager this novel bit of information. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
