Re: wireless is disabled
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Keith McKenzie <km3952@gmail.com> wrote:
> A good book for learning base linux commands is Linux in a Nutshell / O'Reilly.
Thanks, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596154493.do
is this book?
> 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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