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Airplane mode remains on even turned off

I use Tata Photon Plus service , through Huawei device on Dell Studio. My Linux version is Ubuntu 12.04. I have configured the dongle and it was detected by the system adequately but the system is ...
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Internet access only via VPN (Cisco AnyConnect), when VPN off - DNS look-up fails

I am using Ubuntu 12.04. After installing VPN client and using it for couple of months normally, something happened. After one more package/program update I stopped being able to connect to Internet ...
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cannot ftp even when using bridge network and host only in virtualbox?

hi i am using virtual box with bridged network..i can ssh to the guess machine and ftp from the guest machine to the host but not the other way around. i am using ubuntu on both of the machines. i can ...
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VPN keeps Dying/Restarting on 12.04

Hi I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I recently got into VPNs for anonymous downloading; however, no matter what VPN location I choose (my provider allows me several), it eventually dies. This happeneds ...
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How To Debug and Fix PPTP/VPN Client Connection

I am asking a question, which has two sub-questions. Those are how can I get VPN to work on Ubuntu 12.04, either by getting the built-in pptp VPN to work or through manual configuration. Microsoft ...
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How to configure 12.04.2 network without being connected?

When I use the "Network" tool from the "System Settings" application, it won't let me configure the wired interface unless the cable is attached and "live". I want to move machines from one network ...
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Local DNS resolver + dnsmasq in Ubuntu 12.04?

I need a local DNS resolver because my ISP DNS is seriously broken and breaks, in turn, many networks scripts. Before Precise I could just install unbound and add 127.0.0.1 as a prepended name server ...
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How do I configure IPv4 connection to use a DNS accessible only over IPv6?

I'm trying to make my system resolve IPv4 addresses over an IPv6 connection because my IPv6 connection is more secure (yes, it really is. Long story). The IPv6 nameserver resolves IPv4 addresses; it ...
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Struggling with remote (x2g0) access and app permissions (dbus/polkit/)

Rather rashly, I finally decided to upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04. Fairly painless. However some old problems have returned, and I am unable to fix them this time. I access my machine exclusively using ...
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Cannot connect to WiFi with Ubuntu 12.04

I have a Dell Latitude E6410 that I cannot get to connect to a specific WPA-Personal Wireless network when Ubuntu 12.04 is installed. What is strange, is that when I have 11.10 (32-bit) installed ...
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Why can't Xubuntu 12.04.2 connect to my hidden WPA/WPA2 personal protected wifi network?

I can connect to wi-fi networks that don't have any security without an issue, but when I try to connect to my home wi-fi, I cannot connect. After a failed attempt to connect, I notice that my ...
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12.04, 12.10: NetworkManager fails to autoconfigure IPv6

Yep, precisely as the subject line says. In LAN in question we've tried Mac OS X, Windows 7, Ubuntu and ArchLinux. Everything except Ubuntu (what a shame!) works flawlessly, i. e. gets an IP(v6). ...
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Huawei mobile broadband modem e1750 not working with Ubuntu 12.04

After freshly Installing Ubuntu 12.04 it worked with my broadband modem. But it stopped somewhere in between it does not appear in the network manager pane. Something like enable mobile broadband.
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How to connect to Wifi using WPS in NetworkManager? [duplicate]

On my old eeePC 1000 I can detect wireless networks but I am prompted to enter a wireless key. Ubuntu 12 LTS does not detect the Push Button setup automatically from my D-Link router, or does it need ...
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How to use VPN over manually set up network bridge (with the primary interface unmanaged by NetworkManager)?

I've set up a network bridge which I'm using to connect KVM virtual machines on my desktop to my home network; I' ve don this the manual way by creating the bridge in /etc/network/interfaces (the way ...
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2 OpenVPN Connections with NetworkManger

How can activate 2 OpenVPN-Connections at once ? Is one connection active the other one is disabled in the menu of the network-manager.
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Purged Network-Manager and now I can't download it because I don't have any internet connection

First off, I'm new to Linux - I have Windows 7 installed in my laptop. I thought of installing Ubuntu 12.04 and I used the option "install alongside windows". So every thing went down good except ...
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Networking Disabled under VMWare Fusion on Mac OS X

I use MacBook with Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. I have installed VMWare Fusion 5.0.2, under which Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS have been installed as virtual machines. Under Ubuntu vmware-tools-distrib ...
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12.04 NetworkManager trying to configure eth0 which is on a bridge

For months I've been running 12.04 headless home server with a bridge connected through eth0. I've been using this /etc/network/interfaces file: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto br0 iface ...
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selectively route traffic in split-VPN 12.04

I often work remotely. I use the Network Manager to set up my VPN connection, which has worked pretty well. The VPN I have set up currently using the Password with Certificates (TLS) type. What I ...
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Lost All Networking After Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04

I am running an old Dell Inspiron 1521 built in 2007. I ran 11.10 on it and now have been running 12.04 LTS since its launch. When I first installed, I had to run modprobe b43 on the Broadcom Minicard ...
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Why do I now have to enter username and password when connecting from iPhone to the ad-hoc wireless network created on my Ubuntu machine?

I'm having problem connecting to ad-hoc I created in ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS. My office have a restricted (and very slow) Wifi which isnt much of any use. So I figured I could create an ad-hoc in my ...
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Internet keeps disconnecting from AP & network-manager needs to be restarted every few minutes [duplicate]

This happens with two different-vendor access points. Internet disconnects while the nm-applet is showing connected. Although, nm-applet shows that am connected and I got IP address but I even can't ...
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How to setup Adhoc between Kubuntu 12.10 to Ubuntu 12.04

So I'm in a temporary situation. If I get the answer later, I still would like to know the answer. I have 2 laptops, laptop 1 is and old pentium m running Ubuntu 12.04 (The last supported OS for it.) ...
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Internet Issue in Ubuntu 12.04

I have the following configuration: Ubuntu 12.04 32bit 4GB RAM 160 GB HDD I am facing two issues: 1) I have noticed that when My Internet goes down / disconnected, my PC Fan starts flowing fast. ...
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How do I use network manager (instead of command line tools) for wifi with Broadcom BCM4401 card when booting without network cable?

I installed 12.04 on to a non-PAE laptop using the network-based (ncurses interface) install disk. Once I had the unity desktop up-and-running, wireless was working fine "out of the box" with the ...
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nm-applet freeze in ubuntu 12.04

I have the same problem as Network Manager Applet menu freezes and does not respond in ubuntu 12.04. Now, even restarting the nm-applet won't help. Is it a bug? I thought 12.04 would be pretty stable ...
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Wireless BMC4311 driver install

Exasperated with Ubuntu 12.04 and BCM4311 driver. HP2133 (was SUSE 10) Installed 12.04 in March. It ran well until November with no updates) then updates killed my wireless controller. Trolled ...
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Tata Photon Plus not working in Ubuntu 12.04 though configured and was running once upon a time.

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 few months back. My modem, Tata Photon Plus got connected after a number of unsuccessful trials and I browsed the net successfully. But since a month, it is not getting ...
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vpnc hanging, problem with NetworkManager?

I'm trying to get vpnc to connect from my Rackspace server running Ubuntu 12.04 to a remote VPN server and running into problems. Specifically, vpnc is hanging on startup and I have had to restart my ...
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Wireless active connection not shown in NM drop-down menu

Since yesterday I edited my Wifi connection at home (adding a WPA Key) and updated my connection in NM. The connection works and I can surf the web. But the NM menu doesn't show any connection, ...
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Wifi works perfectly in Windows but incosistent in Ubuntu. Goes up and down frequently

I am facing the problem described in this thread and this thread. To describe in brief, my internet wifi faces problem where the internet pages don't load every few minutes and completely stop ...
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Wireless Disconnects Frequently

I do not know why, but my wireless gets disconnected almost every 3 minutes. I posted a chunk of my syslog in http://paste.ubuntu.com/1384647/ . In this chunk you can see when WiFi is connected and ...
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Cannot connect wireless internet with an Atheros AR9285 802.11b/g/n wi-fi adapter

I am new to Ubuntu, Am trying to connect to wireless network but in the network center i cannot even select a local network there are no listings, In windows its straight forward enter in a key, ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Wireless won't connect with gnome network manager or wicd

I have an HP Pavilion Slimline s3100n and I cannot for the life of me get the wifi to connect and stay connected in any circumstances with network manager or wicd... I'm pulling my freaking hair out ...
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kubuntu dsl network problems

OK so here is the problem, i want to reinstall kubuntu 12.04 lts on my pc but i cannot connect to any internet, because the network manager wont let me.i have internet through pppoe but the problem is ...
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Unable to log in to password sites more than once since upgrade

I posted a questions in ubuntu forums that received no replies. I think because it was poorly worded and I forgot to add tags. I tried to edit it but I am not able to log into the password site now. ...
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I can no longer activate wireless on my laptop

I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on my HP Compaq nc8230. Everything went fine, as before. I did a restart based on "197 Updates", then while carrying the laptop, I pressed the key labeled 2 ...
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How migrate my keyring (containing ssh passprases, nautilus remote filesystem, pgp passwords) and network manager connections?

I changed the disk on my laptop and installed Ubuntu on the new disk. Old disk had 12.04 upgraded to 12.10 on it. Now I want to copy my old keyring with WiFi passwords, ftp passwords for nautilus ...
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How to change default network to wlan0?

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 server and I chose wired network but now I need to change to wireles(wlan0) because I haven't wired connection. So every time I reboot my computer, I need to change that. ...
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Reset network configuration in ubuntu 12.04

My DSL internet did not connect by network-manager! So I tried to use sudo pppoeconf and my laptop connect to internet successfully. After that my problems are started! First of all network-manager ...
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802.1q VLAN interface configuration on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop

What is the correct way of configuring virtual LAN interfaces (hopefully without messing up Network Manager) on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop? Simply adding the interface to /etc/network/interfaces seems to ...
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cannot delete IPv6 default gateway

The commands below should be pretty self-explanatory. Please note that the route for which i get failure is obtained by RA and has very less expiry ( e Flag in UDAe). @vm:~$ ip -6 route ...
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12.04 - network manager not started at boot

I am on Ubuntu 12.04, 64-bit, fresh install. I have a wired connection (eth1 interface), the IP address is assigned by DHCP, and PEAP authentication (wpa_supplicant) is set up. My problem is that ...
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How to completely remove wicd from 12.04?

I had issues with WiFi so I removed Network Manager. I booted Windows OS (dual booting Windows 7 and 12.04) to download wicd 1.7.2.4. Extracted it and installed. However, wcid worked properly with ...
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/etc/resolv.conf nameserver fd00::1

My /etc/resolv.conf constantly get a mysterious entry, i run a home network with ipv6 provided by ravd, the interface is auto-configured by Network manager (all name server lookups are lost when this ...
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How to setup VPN as Proxy

I have an PerfectPrivacy VPN connected via the OpenVPN-Network-Manger-Plugin (Ubuntu 12.04.1) and I want to assign a system wide proxy over that VPN. I have tried proxydriver that should do that ...
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apt-get problem while installing , removing and updating

I tried to install ZTE's software for mobile broadband but it got error while installing itself. Now I was ok with the network-manager which itself detects my USB modem. But, everytime while ...
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How to connect to a 802.1x wireless network with EAP type to be SecureW2?

My school's wireless network supports 802.1x wireless connection with SecureW2 as EAP type.Is it possible to connect to this network from Ubuntu 12.04?I am asking because after a small google research ...
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Upgraded to 12.04 and now the WiFi applet doesn't show wireless connections to connect to

I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04 and everything is fine expect I now have no option to connect to WiFi. Under the WiFi applet in the upper top right where I would typically open the applet and see WiFi ...

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