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Wired & Wireless Network connections used to work. Status is now "never" in Preferences. This used to work. How to unlock? Noob.

Asked by Weinstock

I have been running and enjoying Ubuntu on a laptop for a few days with no issues. I rebooted and now I can no longer access the web via wire or wireless. Wired and Wireless Connections show a status of NEVER. if I delete connections and add new ones, I get the same result. I am not being prompted for any keys.

Prior to this issue, a huge update took place which contained 240+ items but it seemed to go thru with no issues. I am stumped and too new to know where to go.

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juancarlospaco (juancarlospaco) said : 		#1

Need Hardware Details, thanks.

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frogmed (b-small) said : 		#2

try booting in recovery mode and running some of the diag options. i had a similar problem and this fixed it. i have a dual boot with windows xp, so every time i boot up it asks me how to boot. im not sure how to boot up in recovery mode with a straight ubuntu system

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Weinstock (weinstock-stl) said : 		#3

Thanks for responding. I'm too new at this. Rather than beat my head against the desk I just started over from scratch. Nothing to lose at this point. I think I locked myself out with too many password attempts. Will be more careful in future.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

This is probably wrong but ...

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

I found network-manager has some bugs
I have a network issue like your and i have installed wicd to resolve it. Wicd is a different network tool.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ and some screenshot http://wicd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php

How to install wicd

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you for a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

wget -q http://apt.wicd.net/wicd.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Add the wicd repository row to youe /etc/apt/sources.list, type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this row:

deb http://apt.wicd.net intrepid extras

save close and exit. Then type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wicd
sudo killall nm-applet

To manually run the wicd-client please press Alt+F2 on an empty desktop and insert this command:

wicd-client

configure your connection. Then reboot your pc.

Hope this helps