Timothy Murphy <gayleard <at> eircom.net> writes: > > WiFi on my Thinkpad T60 has stopped working recently. > I'm running Fedora-15/KDE. > > When I hover over the NetworkManager icon in the panel > I read "Disconnected Wireless disabled in software" > > I'm wondering who gives this message, > and what it means? > > My WiFi card is Intel/PRO 3945ABG > The driver seems to be iwl3945. > > I might mention that WiFi works fine on this machine > under Windows XP. > Some points to consider (mainly who could modify or interfere with /etc/resolv.conf): - dhclient $ apropos dhclient dhclient (8) - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Client dhclient-script (8) - DHCP client network configuration script dhclient.conf (5) - DHCP client configuration file dhclient.leases (5) - DHCP client lease database Note: dhclient.conf has options (prepend, etc) to modify /etc/resolv.conf, usually found in a config file under /etc dir. # find /etc -iname "*dhclient*" - zeroconf Basically avahi package. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avahi_%28software%29 Usually it changes kernel routing table if installed ($ route -n), etc. It also manipulates DNS (DNS service discovery). I am not on KDE, but I see KDE-specific package for zeroconf: $ yum info kdnssd-avahi JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
