Originally uploaded by marcn.
I’ve been running the currently unreleased Ubuntu/Dapper release after having upgraded first from Hoary to Warty before arriving at Dapper.
Somewhere along the way something prevented the cool new NetworkManager from starting up. Whenever I logged it would immedately exit with a useless message about not finding all the needed resources.
Last night at the GNHLUG meeting, Christopher Aillon of Red Hat told me the magic command to fix it:
$ sudo gtk-update-icon-cache -f /usr/share/icons/hicolor
The lack of some icon cache was preventing a network configuration tool from running. Ugh.
This allowed the applet to start, but wasn’t controlling the network devices. For that, I needed to remove references to any network devices so the only thing in my /etc/network/interfaces are these lines:
# The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback
Woohoo glad i found this page, command worked a treat and fixed my problems….cheers
This worked for me too (on Breezy upgraded to Dapper, hp compaq nc6220 laptop).
Now the NetworkManager sits nicely in the notification area, sees all networks and switches between them. However, other software (browser, apt, …) is not happy with switch from wired to wireless: it says there is no connection. Previously I had the same problem, solved each time by deactivating the other (wired) adapter.
Thanks,
this solved my problem !
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