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    Wireless settings not sticking or activating

    I have a wireless system at home using WEP 128 bit encryption I lost all settings yesterday when I logged on after updates. I put all of the settings in in KDE3 network manager but it wont connect & on reboot the settings are not there I'm at a loss as to what to do now! I have added to a bug report in Launchpad.


    My system:- Lenovo T61 Kubuntu Hardy 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 / 2 GHz, 2 GB DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz,
    NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M PCI Express, Wireless 3945ABG


    Thanks Cary
    The Ubuntu Counter Project - user number # 7859, registered Linux user 470405 Lenovo T510 Kubuntu Trusty 64bit, Intel Core i5-560M, 8 GB PC3-DDR3 SDRAM - 1067 MHz, NVIDIA NVS 3100m PCI Express, Wireless Centrino N 6300 My website http://www.qah.org.au
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    Re: Wireless settings not sticking or activating

    Problems with Kubuntu Hardy (8.04) i386 kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
    Hardware: Toshiba A135-S4467 (Laptop), Intel T5200 Core 2 Duo, 1 GB memory

    The last few days (maybe a week, only since I upgraded to 8.04) I have been
    having a problem with my network. I occurs usually when I shut the computer
    down but happened once when it was hibrenated - today.
    When I boot the computer back up I have to reconfigure both ethernet and
    wireless (eth0/ath0,IP address, automatic dhcp, start network on boot,
    etc.) -- in other words the configuration is completely blank. A couple of
    times it would not save the re-configuration but finally did after I rebooted
    and re-entered it.

    A couple of time after it had been hibrenated, it did not ask for the
    password. It booted directly to the desktop.

    How can I fix so the network setting are persistent and ask for the password
    without fail?

    I like 8.04! Good job.

    Jon Piper
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      Re: Wireless settings not sticking or activating

      Ok got to the bottom of this! A few days ago an update over wrote the /etc/network/interfaces file with a pretty empty file, what was in there is any static IP addresses & wep key info for the wan0 interface! If you repopulate this file & reboot bingo wireless & static iP's are back.



      Cary
      The Ubuntu Counter Project - user number # 7859, registered Linux user 470405 Lenovo T510 Kubuntu Trusty 64bit, Intel Core i5-560M, 8 GB PC3-DDR3 SDRAM - 1067 MHz, NVIDIA NVS 3100m PCI Express, Wireless Centrino N 6300 My website http://www.qah.org.au
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        Re: Wireless settings not sticking or activating

        Hello Fine Folks,

        In my previous post "Wireless settings not sticking or activating" should have been "Network (Ethernet & Wireless) Setting Disappear" because the problem involves both. Everytime I boot, I have to reinitialize the network.

        The contents of my /etc/network/interfaces file is:

        auto lo
        iface lo inet loopback
        address 127.0.0.1
        netmask 255.0.0.0

        I really don't care much about wireless because I don't use more than once a month; I use the ethernet everyday - in fact I am always connected. I have another machine that this never happens to so it is something specific to this machine. The only difference between the two is that Hardy was installed on this machine about a week earlier. I installed Hardy on another machine yesterday and it does not have the problem. Next time I boot I'll check this file to see the contents before I reinitialize the network; maybe that will lead somewhere.

        Maybe one of you geniuses can help me figure this out.

        Thanks,
        Jon Piper
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