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

[Dazed_75]

Mark,
If this has not been resolved, please post what version of ubuntu you are
trying out, the details of your hardware (make, model) and the output from
running lshw -short and iwconfig in a terminal.

Thanks,
Larry

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:30 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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