Re: wireless is disabled
A good book for learning base linux commands is Linux in a Nutshell / O'Reilly.
A good 'book' for Linux in general is 'RUTE', & can be found here :-
http://freecode.com/projects/rute
On 24/02/2012, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> Regards, |
>> Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu
>>
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