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