Re: wifi vanished today
On 23 July 2012 08:23, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/12 00:20, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It runs
>> testing. Early this morning at home the wifi worked fine.
>
> [...]
>
>> I right-clicked on the icon with two terminals and a red box
>> with an white X, got a menu, and unchecked the option that enabled
>> wireless.
>
> [...]
>
>> Later, back at home, I tried enabling wireless again. TO my sutprise,
>> the option had disappeared from the menu.
>
> I don't know the machine you are using, but does it have a hardware button
> or touch 'thing' to enable/disable wifi? My HP laptop has a sort of hardware
> touch control, and disabling wifi with network manager (which I guess is
> what you did) also turns the wifi card off so that I have to first use such
> hardware control.
>
> Lorenzo.
Try 'edit connections', should be able to enable your wifi from there.
(You will probably need to enter your details.)
HTH
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