So I upgraded my A305 Laptop to Karmic a week or so ago, all went as well as expected. Wireless worked, still have 'restricted video' issue, but thats another story.
Well I wanted to setup a static IP for my wireless setup, so I updated the interfaces file and resolv.conf to match my needs. All seems well for a couple days, then today when I get back from out of town the wireless on my laptop doesn't work? Hmmm, so plug in CAT5 works fine. Tinker for a bit, then wonder if it broke, so I put in a 9.04 disk, wireless works great, put in a 9.10 disk wireless works great.
But in my install when I click on the graphic for network I don't get any choices for networks, etc. All greyed out, I have reset the /etc/network/interfaces to the bare min thinking that would cause it to 'reset' but nope.
I have added back in the wireless setup in network-manager to no avail, copied what the LIVE 9.10 did and still no go.
My question is, how can I reset it so that it looks for networks again, and asks for the key, etc.. I can't seem to get that back, I can live with DHCP if I have to..
I have /etc/init.d/networking restart a couple times after trying multiple things, but I can't seem to get there.
I don't want to remove network-manager (gui) as I do every once in a bit use my laptop at other hotspots, so I need to be able to change networks easily, etc..
Any ideas? Thoughts? Things to try?
*** Ok this is just wierd, now it works, I moved the machine back to the front room and rebooted to continue the oddessy and now it is working. Of course on DHCP, but I can live with that.
no idea what I did to fix it... that is the bummer part..
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Thanks in advance,
Rp3
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