Network Manager grays out wireless option

Mogens Kjaer mk at crc.dk
Wed May 28 05:55:35 UTC 2008


Victor Sira wrote:
> Running Fedora 9, not sure why the behaviour in subject happens. I
> know the system can see my wlan0 interface based on dmesg and
> ifconfig wlan0. But Network Manager decides to disable wireless
> without giving me the option to re-enable it again. Much like if it'd
> think that no wireless devices is available.

Check the logfile when the driver for the wireless
NIC loads. Any complaints about missing firmware?

Mogens
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