Wireless stopped working...

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rlauer6
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Wireless stopped working...

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Okay, so I didn't do enough research and now I find out that this was a bad idea...

sudo apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome

Now I can't seem to connect to the wireless network despite having configured
/etc/network/interfaces correctly for my wireless network.

I seem to have read something about wireless ONLY working under network-manager on this forum. How can I get back to square one?

P.S. I was trying to setup a static IP for my wireless fit-pc2 when this catastrophe struck. ;-)

Thanks

fly
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Re: Wireless stopped working...

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How can I get back to square one?
You can readd the manager in the same manner you removed it:

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 sudo apt-get install network-manager network-manager-gnome
If this doesn't help you should be able to grab the prebuild images for fitpc2 with everything set up correctly -- and while being there, you should upgrade to a newer release...
I seem to have read something about wireless ONLY working under network-manager on this forum
I don't know which driver was used in your version of ubuntu, but the vendor driver from ralink works well without network manager.

rlauer6
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Re: Wireless stopped working...

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Thanks...I had to download the packages and then re-install using dpkg since the network was not working.

Any thoughts on why I can't get a static IP to work?

Where do I get the ralink drivers?

fly
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Re: Wireless stopped working...

Post by fly »

Any thoughts on why I can't get a static IP to work?
I don't use this version of ubuntu anymore, so it's hard to think of any solutions. However, you should really be able to set static ip at least via ifconfig.
Where do I get the ralink drivers?
You can get the drivers for the rt3090 chip used in the fitpc2 (1,6GHz version) at teh vendor site: http://www.ralinktech.com/support.php?s=2

rlauer6
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Re: Wireless stopped working...

Post by rlauer6 »

I got back my wireless but I still can't set a static IP. network manager seems to be the culprit based on some messages I've seen that 8.04 nm has a bug that prevents static IP.

Any thoughts?

fly
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Re: Wireless stopped working...

Post by fly »

As I said, try setting the ip from ifconfig. This works for me on lucid, but I can't test it on 8.04:

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sudo ifconfig ra0 down
sudo ifconfig ra0 inet 192.168.12.22
sudo ifconfig ra0 up
My IP is now .22 while DHCP serves addresses starting from 100.

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