Glad you found out the issue.
And, if anything else fails, use `rfkill' to check what is disabled (must be installed first).
(IMO, info on how to revert to the old nm-applet should be referenced on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs#General_buggy_or_missing_functions_in_GNOME_Shell_network_applet )
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Pedro
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Do you have the driver installed?
>
> iwl3945-firmware.noarch
>
> Your e-mail seems to suggest that it was working earlier, but you did
> not indicate what, if anything, you changed?
>> WiFi on my Thinkpad T60 has stopped working recently.I should have said that I discovered the cause of the problem:
>> I'm running Fedora-15/KDE.
>>
>> When I hover over the NetworkManager icon in the panel
>> I read "Disconnected Wireless disabled in software"
NetworkManager had written
"WirelessEnabled=false" in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
for some reason;
and re-booting did not change this entry.
Also I noticed that /var/log/messages did contain an entry about this:
-----------------------------------
Sep 16 23:32:32 blanche NetworkManager[730]: <info>
WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; disabled by state file
-----------------------------------
But how many people would know what the "state file" is?
(I certainly didn't.)
Why not say "by the file /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state"?
You asked what I had changed.
The answer is that my ADSL line stopped working (Telecom Italia)
and I had been using an "Onda MC833UP" broadband dongle
(a nightmare under Fedora/NM but quite usable under Windows XP).
This caused NM to modify or create files all over the place,
including deleting everything in /etc/resolv.conf .
This is a habit of NM that I don't understand -
I cannot think of any circumstances where an empty resolv.conf
would be better than one containing something,
however silly NM might think it was.
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Timothy Murphy
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s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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