Glad you found out the issue. Anyway, I must add Fedora 15's Gnome-Shell's NM interface is buggy, use the old one when things are going bad, http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/fedora-users/msg403101.html . That interface clearly has the option of enabling and disabling Wireless.
And, if anything else fails, use `rfkill' to check what is disabled (must be installed first). (IMO, info on how to revert to the old nm-applet should be referenced on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#General_buggy_or_missing_functions_in_GNOME_Shell_network_applet) -- Pedro On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayle...@eircom.net>wrote: > Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Do you have the driver installed? > > > > iwl3945-firmware.noarch > > > > Your e-mail seems to suggest that it was working earlier, but you did > > not indicate what, if anything, you changed? > > >> WiFi on my Thinkpad T60 has stopped working recently. > >> I'm running Fedora-15/KDE. > >> > >> When I hover over the NetworkManager icon in the panel > >> I read "Disconnected Wireless disabled in software" > > I should have said that I discovered the cause of the problem: > NetworkManager had written > "WirelessEnabled=false" in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state > for some reason; > and re-booting did not change this entry. > > Also I noticed that /var/log/messages did contain an entry about this: > ----------------------------------- > Sep 16 23:32:32 blanche NetworkManager[730]: <info> > WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; disabled by state file > ----------------------------------- > > But how many people would know what the "state file" is? > (I certainly didn't.) > Why not say "by the file /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state"? > > You asked what I had changed. > The answer is that my ADSL line stopped working (Telecom Italia) > and I had been using an "Onda MC833UP" broadband dongle > (a nightmare under Fedora/NM but quite usable under Windows XP). > > This caused NM to modify or create files all over the place, > including deleting everything in /etc/resolv.conf . > This is a habit of NM that I don't understand - > I cannot think of any circumstances where an empty resolv.conf > would be better than one containing something, > however silly NM might think it was. > > > -- > Timothy Murphy > e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >
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