Hi Mark,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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&#39;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&#39;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 &quot;rejected send message&quot;....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......<br>


<br>My apologies for a long rant....my question<br><br>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&#39;t work and start fresh with setting up the wireless from the command line?<br>


<br>Thanks,<br><font color="#888888"><br>Mark<br>
</font><br></blockquote></div><br>If you can bring it over to Maker Bench in Tempe 3-6 PM, I can look at it (after the presentation).<br><br>2010 E. University Drive<br>Tempe<br><br>Between S. Smith Rd and McClintock<br>
<br><a href="http://www.makerbench.com/about">http://www.makerbench.com/about</a>/<br><br>Some things to try:<br><br>Be sure your sense key hardware button is on.<br><br>
dmesg - verify your wireless device<br><br>You will see an error about your device driver and instructions to fix if required.<br><br clear="all">If you are using the little Wireless icon tool, right click on the upper right hand corner (depending on your distro) and you will be able to edit connections.  There is a tiny place to click to add your options also.  <br>

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