NetworkManager is a set of co-operative tools that make networking simple and straightforward.
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Network Manager Fails to Maintain A Long-Term Connection on 802.11x Networks
I'm good with bugs, but I can't remain connected to an 802.11x Enterprise grade network. It uses Tunneled TLS authentication, with PAP inner authentication.
It will connect, but then go and randomly ...
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How do I achieve a PPPoE connection over wifi?
I am trying to move my PPPoE dialling from my router to two machines on that router, a Windows 7 and an Ubuntu 12.04 machine. (Actually one machine with dual boot for now).
I set up a DSL (PPPoE) ...
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Problem with connecting to some of wireless networks in ubuntu 12.10
I've recently instaled ubuntu 12.10 on my lenovo ideapad Y570, and i have a big problem with connecting to some of the wireless networks. So, the one at my home is working just fine, as well as my ...
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Automatically mount/umount sshfs on vpn-up and vpn-down
this problem is really frustrating me. I have the following script to mount/unmount a sshfs upon a vpn connection (vpn-up) and vpn-down. I have this script in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ ...
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Problem linking WLAN to Ethernet
So I've been trying to use a laptop who's wifi card doesn't work properly, by using a Lenovo V570 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 to bridge the two networks. I changed my ethernet network to "Shared to other ...
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Why does network manager automatically choose WEP over WPA & WPA2?
I am on Ubuntu 12.10 and for some reason my wireless connection is using WEP when it is set to use WPA/WPA2 Personal.
Also I should mention that I used to be on 12.04 and was experiencing the ...
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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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network profiles in ubuntu 12.04
I use a wired connection at home and in college. But at home i set my ipV4 settings to automatic DHCP whereas in college I need to manually enter the ip address, subnet and gateway and i also need to ...
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Changing device assigned to the modem in Network Manager
I have an EVDO modem. I tried to connect it with wvdial; pppd works fine, but I don't like having to use the terminal. I want to connect using network manager.
The modem is detected fine in Ubuntu, ...
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Network Manager connection is unmanageable until I disable and enable networking
Ubuntu 12.10. The problem is: I've created DSL connection accessible for all users and made it to connect automatically. It works okay.
The problem is, when I log in to my session, I cannot control ...
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Why does WiFi work with WICD but not Network Manager
So my WiFi can connect with WICD, but not the default KDE network manager. I would like to know why. Do both these applications handle the connection differently? If so what would the difference be?
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Can't create ad-hoc network
I seem to have trouble creating an ad-hoc network in XUbuntu. I'm using the network manager to create the ad-hoc network. However, I can't then connect to the network using the same machine (as the ...
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Save openVPN password using network manager
I'm using network manager on Ubuntu 12.04, with Mate as a desktop.
The network manager is used to connect to the openVPN server.
Each time I click to connect to the openVPN server, I'm required to ...
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Wifi will not connect with an Intel Wifi Link 1000
I have an HP dv7t-6100CTO laptop. I have linux ubuntu 12.04 lts dual booted. The specs of my laptop are:
- i7-2620m dual core (2.7 ghz) processor
- intel wifi link 1000 bgn wireless card
I am having ...
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after upgrade to 12.04 network manager doesn't work at all
I find in syslog some messages
"network manager(PID) terminated with status 1"
If I try to run NetworkManager manually I get
"Failed to read classid fil: Object not found"
In 11.10 it was working ...
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NetworkManager tries to connect to random wireless networks that it hasn't used before
If NetworkManager can't connect to one of the networks that I've set up for automatic connections, it will start what appears to me to be randomly picking nearby networks and trying to connect to ...
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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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Fickle Wifi on SonicWall routers
I'm having trouble connecting to some SonicWall routers in Ubuntu (but it sadly works fine in Windows). Oddly enough, it will occasionally connect and allow me to use the internet as usual, but it ...
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NetworkManager run script before connection based on SSID
Is it possible to have NetworkManager run a script before it connects to a wifi network and pass the SSID of the network to the script (or just execute a script based on SSID)? I'm switching back from ...
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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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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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Could not run Hauwei E173 on 12.10 using NetworkManager (even from trunk)
I am trying to run Huawei E173 device on Ubuntu 12.10. First of all I have tried running it on raw Ubuntu (installed via Wubi) without any changes. Device was detected at lsusb as Bus 003 Device 004: ...
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my wireless network continously asking for Authentication even when i give correct security key
I have a BCM4313 on my laptop with Ubuntu 12.04. Initially before upgrading to 12.04 my wireless used to work fine. But after that its connecting sometimes and sometimes i cant find my network in ...
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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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How do I get the Broadcom 4312 driver working at boot?
I've done some homework, and gotten my bcm4312 working, but not automated. I can find posts like these that describe how to get it going and connecting to networks, and I can add the wl driver to ...
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Disable network manager password prompt after reconnect due to connection problem
I want to avoid any password prompt from Ubuntu (12.04) network manager. I just want that the application works silently with the network and password that I gived to it and prompt for password just ...
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Wireless Card works under network manager but not with wicd
I have a TP-LINK WN821N and two computers, both with 12.04 LTS and 12.04.2 LTS. The computer with 12.04 does not have graphical environment, I tried network-manager but did not work so I installed ...
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Shared internet connection - console equvalent
I know how to share ethernet connection (bridged with wifi) with Network Manager GUI.
Now I'm trying to do the same from console (Ubuntu server 12.04).
The steps I did for now:
Connected to wifi via ...
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DSL through pppoeconf works but through Network Manager stops some sites from loading in browsers?
I am having Ubuntu 12.04.
DSL through pppoeconf(connecting at boot time) works without any problem but connecting through Network Manager stops some sites from (fully)loading in browsers ?
Disabling ...
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Why does network-manager always keep trying to connect to neighbours wifi?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin with graphic interface gnome3.
My wifi card detects like 20 diffrent acces points. Sometimes I want to stay unconnected, but not have to disable my wifi ...
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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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DHCP 'hotplugging' or failover
When some PCs are connected via a simple switch, that is also connected to an DHCP router, is it possible to have them autoconfiguring their IP adresses, if the DHCP is absent, but DHCP-configured, as ...
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Wireless Network Connection is active & connected, but Enable Wireless Options is uncheck strangely
I think this is bug. Because Wireless Network is weird (Enable Wireless should checked).
How to fix this?
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How can I access debug info for failing VPN connection via Network Manager?
I have a VPN connection set up via the Network Manager. Today it failed because I forgot make the key files accessible, once I made them accessible, it worked. Yay!
But, what if I hadn't remembered? ...
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Vodafone K3570-Z datacard not working on ubuntu 12.10 system
I have a vodafone K3570-Z usb datacard. It was working fine on ubuntu 12.04. I just upgraded my system to 12.10 and now I can't able to connect my datacard. After plugged to my system even it is not ...
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How can I get NetworkManager to autoconnect to a Openconnect VPN via nmcli without prompting for a user and password
I am trying to set up a script driven VPN connection with nmcli on Lubuntu 12.10 using Openconnect and NetworkManager and I cannot seem to get it to connect either with the saved credentials or via ...
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Can I set up a hostname alias that is only active in a specific network?
I have a small ARM box running ownCloud in my house, and a domain bound to my DSL router with Dynamic DNS. This works well as I can configure the ownCloud client to use the domain name, which works ...
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How to manually recheck for available network devices?
I use a DSL cable modem for Connecting Internet. Many a times it happens that the modem is turned off due to some problems by my ISP, and is started after sometime.
Now the problem is that every time ...
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eth0 (DHCP) works only in its native network segment after update to 12.04
I've got some strange effects in my network behavior after updating to 12.04 - before all worked fine:
My network is segmented with my desktops residing in 192.168.1.0/28. My DSL-router lives in a ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 MAC change not able to connect - Broadcom BCM4313
Okay guys, so i've looked around extensively on this topic, only to find that no one has a true solution, only half explained work arounds. Something tells me this problem can be solved, for the pure ...
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Network problem only when using browser
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. Everything used to work perfectly but currently I am having network problem.
If I restart network-manager, I could ping my router and google.com no problem, ...
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How to use wireless and mobile broadband together (so in a way combine the best of Network manager and Wicd)?
The wireless connection I use at the university, eduroam, has been really annoying to use with Network manager. The connection cut off every now and then and sometimes came back right away but ...
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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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'Failed to apply network settings
When I restart my computer I found a strange error related to blue-tooth. Error is :
Failed to apply network settings
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid: The permission of the setuid ...
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How to make NetworkManager NOT manage libvirtd's virtbr0 and vnet0 interfaces?
The libvirt-bin daemon libvirtd creates virtual bridge(s) and interface(s) for the virtual machines it controls. NetworkManager kills these connections. I know that it is possible to uninstall or ...
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Intel® WiFi Link 5100 - no wireless networks found - Ubuntu 12.04
I have a random computer called a Seneca Data Carbon 14. Made by a small NY company.
I loaded 12.04 LTS on it and I can't get wireless. Ehternet works fine.
The adapter is the Intel® WiFi Link 5100.
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Where did my wireless connections go?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a Dell Lattitude 620 laptop with a Broadcom 4331 card and a Motorola Surfboard SBG6580. I'm listing all of this stuff, because I'm really not sure which part the ...
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Internet on Ubuntu 12.04 stopped to work after installing updates from the update manager - followup question
Internet on Ubuntu 12.04 stopped to work after installing updates from the update manager
I found an answer at another question which seemed to work:
Roman,
I had the same issue, luckily I ...
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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 ...
