To activate your connection you can do one of a few things:
1) As David says you could use the Network Montior Applet. If you do not have one right click on the Panel -> Select "Add to Panel" -> Scroll Down to Find "Network Monitor" -> now highlight and Add.
You can now follow the steps he prescribed below.
2) You can access the same screen using the following System -> Administration -> Networking. It will ask you to enter your password and then allow you to configure or active devices,etc..
3) From the Terminal you can use the following commands:
To deactivate the device:
sudo ifdown <device_name>
Or to active the device:
sudo ifup <device_name>
So for wlan0 this would be:
sudo ifdown wlan0
Or
sudo ifup wlan0
Hope this helps,
Dave
baza wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 09:01 +0100, David Little wrote:
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>>baza wrote:
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>>> When my Breezy laptop, Dell Inspiron 2200, goes into standby mode for
>>>any length on time the wifi appears to stop working. Only a reboot gets
>>>the connection to my network back up. Is there any way I can turn on the
>>>wifi without having to reboot?
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>>>Baza
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>>Have you tried Network Monitor applet -> Properties -> Configure.
>>It lets me turn wifi off and on on my Toshiba Portege as required.
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>>David
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>For some reason best known to itself I don't appear to have one of
>those. Do you know how I 'activate' it?
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>Bazaz
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Oh, and i have just rememberd, i once had no Network applet too, it was
becuse i switched over to breezy too early and certain things were not
ready, i recently killed my system and had to reinstall, upon upgrading
(straight away, first thing i did after logging in) from 5.04 to 5.10 it
came back, so i dont know if there is a fix, but a reinstall works :)
Nick McMahon
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