Thanks, that's a lifesaver - I'll only have to reinstall the laptop this once! I'm mulling if this is a bug or a wishlist for an easier way?
Paula On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 12:50 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:39:49 +0100 > gazz wrote: > > > > > The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now > > using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the > > network manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to > > remove the network manager and put wicd on instead. OK, now I could > > set up the wireless access point, all well and good. > > > > It seems that the sync for Ubuntu One and Dropbox need the network > > manager as both are acting crazy this morning. UbuntuOne can't connect > > at all and Dropbox is partially syncing. Anyway wicd can't seem to > > connect to the wifi at my workshop either. > > > > Tried to remove wicd - no luck with apt-get. Had to purge it and > > reinstall network-manager with aptitude. Then the nm-applet indicator > > was missing from the tray and no way to interact with the network > > manager short of cli. Did killall nm-applet and then started it again > > - now it's hanging complaining: > > ** (nm-applet:1998: DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a > > disconnect 0 > > > > When I restart networking, it's using DHCP Client to reconnect. > > > > I can find other people with similar issue but no-one seems to know > > what's going on. The only person who seems to have solved it > > reinstalled 10.04 from scratch! > > > > So whenever I want to configure a router, I'll have to reinstall > > 10.04???? There has to be an easier fix? I frequently need to install > > routers . . . > > In my previous job I would routinely need to do the following to avoid > a similar situation: > > + kill the nm-applet > + disable (temporarily) the Network Manager > (sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop) > + set IP manually or run dhclient manually > > When all finished, clear the manual IP address (if any), restart > network-manager and re-run nm-applet and all was happy again. > > Grant. >
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