Another wlan question...

[Lich]

Last night we had a power outage. After the power came back on, the wireless modem did not sync back up. It turned out there was a surge that dicked up the power supply. So I replaced the power supply, and now the wireless modem is working again - and I can connect while plugged into it (ethernet hard line)

Wireless does not work though.

I have gone into my wireless modem interface and restored all factory defaults. I have then gone into Network Configuration, and made sure those are the same. Yet when I do iwconfig, I get no access point associated: I get this:

mitch@mitch-laptop:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wmaster0  no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"1501"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

pan0      no wireless extensions.

I also noticed that when I am plugged in, the wlan light on the modem is on. When I unplug the ethernet cable to try and connect wirelessly, it goes out.

I'm not sure where my problem is, as it looks like I am seeing the network. I have ubuntu 8.10.

Also, I was fine on wireless 24 hours ago. This has just happened.

[Lich]

Also, regarding network applet - I have never had it working since 8.10. Here's a sequence I tried. First I tried to run it... then I tried to kill it and restart it:

mitch@mitch-laptop:~$ sudo nm-applet

** (nm-applet:13407): WARNING **: <WARN>  applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service as it is already taken.  Return: 3


(nm-applet:13407): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
mitch@mitch-laptop:~$ sudo pkill nm-applet
mitch@mitch-laptop:~$ nm-applet

(nm-applet:13517): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "ubuntulooks",

** (nm-applet:13517): WARNING **: nm_client_get_devices: error getting devices: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager" member "GetDevices" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager")

[D-cat]

What about iwlist wlan0 scanning ?

[Lich]

What about iwlist wlan0 scanning ?

Nothing. I had exhausted all possibilities. I spent time on an Ubuntu chat site, and had a discussion with a guy over the phone from a Linux user group in my state.


When I went from 8.04 to 8.10, I did so as an update over the net. I lost network manager, and couldn't get it to open ever. I was setting everything up through network configuration... long story... anyway after messing with this all day, and losing even the possibility to get online when plugged in, I just said the hell with it and ran killdisk, then freshly installed 8.10 from a iso cd my friend had. Now network manager is working fine, everything is wonderful.

All I can conclude is this;

Maybe upgrading versions over the net isn't so good. You have all these libraries with similar names, and maybe some aren't being written over or something... ?

[Lich]

...of course, now that I have a new installation, I can't watch youtube videos. Mozilla crashes. And I have the extras installed...

[MikeTbob]

...of course, now that I have a new installation, I can't watch youtube videos. Mozilla crashes. And I have the extras installed...

Start Firefox in a terminal window, when it crashes again, it should spit out some error messages. Post those error messages here please.

[D-cat]

Probably flash related. Have you tried upgrading to Flash 10 from Adobe's site?

[Lich]

Start Firefox in a terminal window, when it crashes again, it should spit out some error messages. Post those error messages here please.

Hey guys,

I do have adobe installed (10), and the Ubuntu-Extras from synaptic. As far as the error message, I can't get the message. The browser closes automatically and the message closes as soon as it pops up - too quick to read.