Re: wireless is disabled
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM, Florian Kulzer
<debian-lists@florian-kulzer.eu> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:36:02 +0800, lina wrote:
>> Supplementary Information:
>>
>> # nm-tool
>>
>> NetworkManager Tool
>>
>> State: disconnected
>>
>> - Device: eth0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Type: Wired
>> Driver: tg3
>> State: unmanaged
>
> [snip: eth0 looks normal to me for an unmanaged device]
>
>> - Device: wlan0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Type: 802.11 WiFi
>> Driver: b43
>> State: unavailable
>> Default: no
>> HW Address: E0:F8:47:0A:B0:D8
>>
>> Capabilities:
>>
>> Wireless Properties
>> WEP Encryption: yes
>> WPA Encryption: yes
>> WPA2 Encryption: yes
>>
>> Wireless Access Points
>
> It should be possible to change the line "State: unavailable" to "State:
> disconnected" by running:
>
> nmcli nm wifi on
Thanks, this works.
How can I know enough commands to use.
are there some hand-book (terse ones) for it? so I may recite some
(hope not sounds so silly, might a bit though).
In the past (maybe till future), one channel is learning form
people/list, another channel is in the process of google-searching the
problem.
Sometimes read man pages, so much information and I just got lost so soon.
>
> If this does not work then it might be necessary to install the package
> "rfkill" and use
>
> rfkill list
Just installed.
Thanks with best regards,
>
> to check if an RF killswitch has inadvertently been activated. Post any
> output or error messages that you may get from these commands.
>
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> Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu
>
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