[boots]

Hi there,

I'm a near-complete linux noob. I have a Shuttle XS35GT V3 with the current build of XBMCbuntu Eden installed.

Today after hours of operation, the wireless simply stopped working. Here's what I know:

- when running XBMC from XBMCbuntu, wireless would periodically prompt me for password as it had disconnected
- while I was in XBMC, wi-fi disconnected entirely
- system tray icon shows the up and down arrows that indicate network connection, but chromium says I can't connect to the internet.
- In the right-click menu for that up and down arrow icon, neither "networking" nor "wireless" are enabled, and enablign them does nothing
- If I click "connection information" I get a dialogue box telling me "error displaying connection information: No valid active connections found"
- rebooting doesn't fix it
- I've made sure my NetworkManager.conf has "true" set for the value that means nm manages my connection.
- connecting via ethernet cable doesn't work either

I have literally no idea what caused this or how to fix it.

I know the done thing around here is that I type a bunch of stuff into terminal and report it to you, but don't even know what to type into terminal or how to get it to output to a file so I can copy-paste it to here.

Any help much appreciated!

[un1versal]

Hello and welcome to forums.

I dont use wireless but hers something you can try!

1- Ca you connect from another wireless machine i.e. is your wireless router working and do you have internet connection?
2- Reboot your router and modem and wait for everything to come up, reboot your xbmc box
3- Type ifconfig on terminal and post the result here in [code brackets]
3- Determine the name of the adapters that ifconfig spat out

This is presuming your adapter is named vlan0 some are ra0

Code:

ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up

then try restarting networking

Code:

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

This is all presuming your internet is on and that your wireless is working.

If not try this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo

also maybe consider this http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...rk-Manager

uNi

[Bobby Blixberg]

- connecting via ethernet cable doesn't work either

also maybe consider this http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...rk-Manager

Just asking myself how to add something from the internet without having an internet connection....