Need Help with Wireless Networking on a New Install of Ubuntu 11.04

[Jim March]

Yeah, I was going to say the same thing: as long as you're not using a
cellular broadband connection or tethered cellphone, rip out Network
Manager and drop Wicd in there instead.

Wicd is more reliable with WiFi but it didn't have cellmodem support
last time I looked.  That may have changed for all I know.

You COULD do a cellmodem connection with an old-school dial-up script
run at the command line.  It's a pain but I used to do that a lot
before Network Manager got smart about cellmodems.  Or, you may be
using a smartphone that will act as a WiFi hotspot, or you could
tether to a cellphone across Bluetooth via the Bluetooth manager and
run that in combation with Wicd.

Jim

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/10/replace-network-manager-wicd-network-manager-ubuntu-10-0410-10-maverick-meerkat/
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>>
>> I thought i would give ubuntu a try for a new laptop install. It all
>> works, except wireless networking. My main frustration is
>> adding/deleting/editing network connections through the network gui: changes
>> to connections are not kept when I click save, new connections don't appear
>> in the dropdown from the taskbar, and old connections remain in the drop
>> down from the task bar after then are deleted from the networking gui. I
>> have tried rebooting, and still connections remain that have been deleted
>> and new ones don't shoe up. I also tried editing a connection, (removing the
>> password for WPA Personal), and I still get a popup asking for
>> authentication, but no way to enter it into the dialog...the wireless
>> security drop down is grayed out. Finally, when I tried
>> /etc/init.d/networking stop/start, I get a message about using services
>> networking start, but that command gives an error "rejected send
>> message"....when I tried service networking stop I get the error stop:
>> Unknown instance. I am a long time user of Debian, and I thought Ubuntu was
>> supposed to be the easier/friendlier dialect......
>>
>> My apologies for a long rant....my question
>>
>> Short of a complete system re-install, how do I get the networking gui
>> working, or better yet, how do I clean out the old connections that don't
>> work and start fresh with setting up the wireless from the command line?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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