[Novalug] Lost WiFi Connection

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Tue May 15 08:23:48 EDT 2012


Is there a hardware kill switch? Either a toggle on the side of the
netbook or a key-combo?

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Roger W. Broseus <RogerB@bronord.com> wrote:
> While connecting my netbook to a wired network, to speed file transfers, I
> disabled wireless networking. Now, I can not bring wifi back up.
>
>
>
> I disabled wireless by clicking on the networking icon on the "panel" in
> gnome. Now, when I left-click on it, "Wired Network" is grey-out.
>
>
>
> iwconfig -a says No such device
>
> /etc/network/interfaces contents are:
>
>     auto lo
>
>     iface lo inet loopback
>
>
>
> How do I re-enable wifi? I hope to resolve this soon as I'm on the road
> tomorrow morning!
>
> --
> Roger Broseus
> RogerB@bronord.com
> www.bronord.com
>
>
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