Questions tagged [network-manager]
NetworkManager is the default networking suite for Ubuntu. It is a set of co-operative tools developed by GNOME. The NetworkManager service can be controlled using the nmcli tool (Network Manager Command Line Interface) as well as by its GUI.
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How do I remove Mobile Broadband connections that don't appear under "Edit Connections..."?
When I first tried to use my mobile to connect to the internet, I created a Mobile Broadband connection. I did this by opening Bluetooth > Preferences and ticking "Access the Internet using your ...
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Network manager keeps asking for login information with a Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 wireless card
I am having problems with wireless connections when I start my computer back up from standby after a while of it being in standby, and sometimes regular power up from full off as well though less ...
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How to set up a WiFi Hotspot using Kubuntu 12.04
I'm not having any luck with the instructions in Wifi Docs/Ad hoc or Ad-hoc networking. I can't get ad-hoc wifi to work in Kubuntu 12.04 on a Thinkpad X220 with Intel wireless. All indications are ...
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Network manager doesn't find my wired conection
There is no problem to connect to my wireless network, but when I want to change it to wired connection the manger can't find the connection.
There is green light in the socket when I connect the ...
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I keep losing the Internet connection in Ubuntu 11.10
I recently assembled a new desktop with an ASUS PCE-N15 wireless network adapter and my home wireless network is detected and I am able to connect to it and even access the Internet.
However, after ...
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Where should a non-administrative user save a CA certificate?
I have a CA certificate that I use to connect to a WPA2 Enterprise wireless network.
Where within my home folder should I store the .crt file? I don't see anything in the Filesystem Hierarchy ...
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Jquery website is not opening in UBUNTU but in XP, Everything is fine
I know it is weird, But I just discovered this, jquery.com is not opening in my ubuntu firefox or other KDE browser and hence many sites that copy codes from code.jquery.com also hanged. Is there any ...
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Cannot disable Airplane Mode
When I use gnome network manager it indicates that wireless is disabled by hardware switch while it is not. Even in windows I can not turn on my wireless!
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Failed to compile Network Manager 0.9.4
After upgrading to 12.04 I needed to re-compile Network Manager to the version 0.9.4.0 again. However with the version 9.4.0 I faced with the error during compilation with libdns-manager:
$ make
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Davicom DM9601 USB LAN NIC Ubuntu 11.10 issue
I have a davicom dm9601 USB ethernet card.
When I plug in the device, it is detected and drivers are
loaded, but I can't connect to internet using it.
It works perfectly on XP, other laptop but not ...
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How to prevent Network Manager from auto creating network connection profiles with "available to everyone" by default
We have several laptops at work which use Ubuntu 11.10 64bit.
I have our Wifi Access Point requiring WPA2-EAP Authentication (backed by a LDAP server).
I have the staff using these laptops when ...
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How can I permanently disable the internal WiFi adapter?
I recently installed a Linksys Wireless-N Notebook Adapter w/Dual-Band (WPC600N), which is working nicely via the PCMCIA slot; however, I cannot find where to permanently disable the internal WiFi ...
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Error: No suitable device found: no active connection or device [closed]
I am trying to SSH to a machine and initiate a VPN, created whilst in front of the machine through GNOME (Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS);
$ nmcli con
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How to remove bottom panel in Gnome Shell
How do you remove that obnoxious pseudo-invisible bottom panel in Gnome Shell in 11.10? Network Manager is especially annoying, as it will place a large "Network Disconnected!" tab that won't go away ...
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Why does Ubuntu keep trying to connect to a WiFi network while plugged into an ethernet
My desk is situated at the edge of the range of a wireless signal which I use occasionally (when away from my desk) and is therefore saved in network manager. At my desk, however, I plug into the ...
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Wired connection problem through router
I'm having trouble to connect my Ubuntu 11.10 to internet through ethernet. I installed a router to get Wi-Fi and now (by a wired connection) I can't have internet with ubuntu (but I can with Windows ...
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Remove all network connection information list
I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and I am accessing the internet from mobile, so I have various connections mentioned in the list.
How can I remove that list of connection from the network list?
Below is ...
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On restart server Ethernet went down saying not configured!
i justy have configured my dhcp server with static ip. after configuration dhcp server & routers were working fine. but after restarting server network connectivity went off. there are two lan ...
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Automatically disable wifi (wireless) when wired?
What's the best way to automatically disable my Wifi/wireless connection whenever I plug in a wired Ethernet cable? I'd like it to be re-enabled when I later unplug the wire.
Also, I sometimes like ...
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How do I get my Mblaze USB modem working?
I am new to ubuntu and have installed version 11.10 alongside windows. I have got a mblaze MTS wireless usb which I use to connect to internet. I have installed its drivers which were provided by ...
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Network manager dies if my router drops the internet connection
My ISP doing some repairs on my broadband cable so my internet connection is dropping frequently, when my internet connection drops, Network Manager, shows that there are no interfaces.
I have to ...
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Unable to Connect to Internet with 3G USB Dongle for Particular ISP
I'm using USB 3G Dongle for Internet. Previously I was using Tata Docomo (India) as provider, and the Internet was working fine. Now I've changed to BSNL, but I'm unable to connect to the Internet on ...
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Can't enable wireless in Ubuntu 11.10
i'm using lenovo b570,it has got bcm4313 wlan chip from broadcom corp... the problem is that i'm not able to "enable wireless" from gui. even if enable wlan0 manually from terminal "ip link set wlan0 ...
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How can I stop getting disconnected from my enterprise WPA2 wifi network every ~ minutes?
When I'm connected to my school's wifi network, which is an enterprise WPA2 network, using PEAP authentication and MSCHAPv2, I get disconnected every 30 minutes to an hour. It won't reconnect, and the ...
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How to remove multiple network manager applets?
When I typed nm-applet in Alt+F2, I got multiple network menu and I want to remove it.
Can anyone help me?
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How to tell network manager not to show wireless AP with poor quality
Is it possible to tell Network Manager not to show wireless access points that have very poor quality or are below a specific quality level. If not, an alternative that can limit the amount of AP ...
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Share internet connection [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Sharing Wireless Connection with Other PCs and Phones
My system has 2 network cards, one wired and one wireless.
I've a local cable net connected to my ethernet card.
Now I ...
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App that shows Access point wireless security (Extended information for AP)
In 11.10, the default NetworkManager only shows the wireless access points but it does not provide a way to know if they are WEP, WPA, WPA2...
As you can see from the image all I can extract from ...
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Accidentally clicked "don't show this message again" - how to reactivate?
When Gnome 3.2 told me, there are wireless networks available, I accidentally clicked "don't show this message again".
How can I reactivate this message?
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How do you remove the Network icon from Gnome Shell?
Using Gnome Shell, how do I get rid of the Network icon from the top right in the panel?
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NetworkManager doesn't detect my broadband device
I have a Huawei K3765 (USB ID 12D1:1520) and I'm trying to use it with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid.
I have usb-modeswitch installed, so when I plug the device I can see that it gets switched from storage-mode ...
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How do I create a non-adhoc wifi hotspot?
I wanted to use my desktop with a wired ethernet connection (eth0) to operate my "TP-LINK TL-WN722N" USB Wifi Adapter (wlan0) as a non-adhoc (infrastructure mode) access point for my Android to ...
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Wired unmanaged after playing with VPN
I was trying to install VPN server and followed some 'tutorials' and now I end up with eth0 - unmanaged.
when called 'network-admin' there is no tab 'connection' just General,DNS,Hosts. WiFi works ...
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Editing network interfaces without system rebooting
I'd like to make some changes to my networking configuration by editing my /etc/network/interfaces file. What's the cleanest way to make changes to this file and have them take effect, without having ...
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Why is network-manager adding 10 more seconds to shutdown time?
Without network-manager installed, my system shuts down in 2 or 3 seconds.
Why does it take almost 15 seconds (which is a 5-time increase) with network-manager installed and can't this time be ...
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Wireless is Disabled
Recently it's repeated constantly !! Network is Disabled shown in the network icon, my OS ubuntu 10.10 .
While I'm surfing on the NET after a while (may be 2 hours or may be a day) it disconnect and ...
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Configuring Network without Default Gateway
I'm trying to connect my desktop and laptop using an ethernet connection. I usually configure network from the command line but this time I decided to give Network Manager a try, so I went to Network ...
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How to force Network Manager to set auto negotiation to false/off for a particular NIC (eth0) on start-up?
It so happens that I have a NIC that is only able to establish a connection with the current network when auto negotiation is set to false. In windows, this can be achieved rather easily by changing ...
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How to set wifi max connection tries?
I have a wifi network configured within networkmanager. Unfortunately I cannot use this as long as I sit on my workplace as there is the signal is very low. But when I go over to other workplaces of ...
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"configure: error: Intel WiMAX SDK is required " error when recompiling Network Manager
I tried to to recompile network manager in this way but did not succeeded.
Can you explain me how can I install wimax tools? Or tell me what is wrong with my installation?
I installed wimax tools ...
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network bridge - without destroying network manager
I have seen a lot of questions related to Bridge and network manager. however none of them seem to apply to what i seen AND want.
I setup my bridge in /etc/network/interfaces.
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Auto reconnect wifi?
I use 10.04 on my laptop . Whenever my router switches on and off I have to manually click on a popup ok button to re-enable connection to router . How can this be done automatically ?
Thanks.
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How do I get a CDMA USB Modem ZTE AC682 modem working?
How to make my usb modem ZTE ac682 work instanly, i mean when i put the modem my system (ubuntu 11.10) can recognize my modem automatically??? do anyone have a workaround?
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Networking failing on both wired and wireless connections [closed]
Running 11.10 on a Lenovo B570, maybe a month old. When I try to connect to a network, wired or wireless, nm-applet does its normal "connecting" animation, but sort of "spasming" at the end of the ...
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Which group do I need to add a user to to give them access to editing network connections?
I'd specifically like them to be able to use the Network Manager.
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Network Manager icon doesn't appear in top panel
Recently I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 and I have a problem with network-manager because the icon in top bar disappeared and I don't know how to get it back.
I tried to edit NetworkManager.conf and set ...
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OpenVPN configuration on Ubuntu
I want to use OpenVPN on Ubuntu. The following three files are provided:
client.conf
tccg-ca.crt
tccg-ta.key
What are the steps to configure OpenVPN in Ubuntu by using these files. I have installed ...
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How to automatically reconnect after a connection is dropped? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Make Network Manager restart after dropped connection?
My problem is the same as in this question but since the question was asked months ago and nobody seems to answer, I am ...
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Getting OpenVPN to work with XFCE on Xubuntu? [closed]
I'm trying to get OpenVPN to work properly on my install of Xubuntu 11.10. So far, no luck. I've successfully set this up very easily using Ubuntu 11.10 so not sure why I'm seeing issues.
The base ...
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Cannot access resources on VPN network
I managed to connect from outside to the corporate network using VPN (OpenVPN plugin of the network-manager). I get my IP address, routing tables etc set up. But I cannot access anything on that ...
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