On Lu, 10 iun 13, 04:04:41, Hendrik Boom wrote:
I think -- maybe I should ask it to shut down wifi altogether (using
the
network manager's menu, and then ask it to turn it on again. Maybe
then
it will rescan.
Yes, it will.
But instead, after turning it off, the item has vanished from the
menu,
and I can find no way to get it back.
What item from which menu? I'm assuming you mean the "Enable Wi-Fi"
item
in the nm-applet right-click menu.
[snip]
It looks as if somewhere Linux has got the idea that wifi is supposed
to
be off, and upon boot it tells the BIOS to disable the WLAN device.
And
then the network manager thinks I don't have a wifi device and
refuses to
give me any options to turn it on again.
As far as I recall Network Manager is using rfkill to disable the
WiFi[1]. See if the command 'rfkill' helps.
[1] this generally is not such a bad idea, because it will save power.
Kind regards,
Andrei