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 -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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