On 03/08/10 12:39, 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 . . .
I just today set up a wireless accees point (wap). The default IP of the wap was 192.168.0.50, and to connect to its web interface I believe I needed to use a PC in the same subnet (192.168.0.xx) To achieve this, with a wired connection, I set my PC away from dhcp to a fixed (manual) IP. I chose an IP of 192.168.0.55 mask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.50 and saved the settings, and it worked ok. Oh I had to restart the PC for the fixed IP to take effect. There may be a quicker way, not sure. hth It souds easy of course, but it took a l-o-o-o-n-g time for me to figure it all out! -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
