SOLVED: no connections tab in network admin

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Miles Fidelman wrote:
> My son runs Debian (Squeeze) on a relatively ancient Gateway Laptop - 
> and all was copacetic until he did a recent apt-get 
> update/upgrade/autoremove.
>
> Suddenly:
> - wireless isn't working
> - the network-admin tool does not show a "connections" tab
> - iwconfig shows "no wireless extensions"

- a little googling
- installed wicd
- needed to plug "wlan0" into the config box
- needed to reload wifi passwords
- all seems to be working

network-admin still doesn't show the connections tab, but then who cares

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