No Connection, wireless icon-gone, cannot op"network center"

[Aceofspades]

Same issue as scoobie, it keeps saying no such file/directory

 

[miketurley]

It happened after about 3 days of ownership for no reason. Took it back to PC World who did a complete restore from the disc provided - took about 30 minutes. Everything OK - that was 4 weeks ago - fingers crossed!

 

[rebuilder]

Hm. I don't know why I would have that file and you wouldn't. Can you post the output of running nm-applet in terminal? (no sudo)

 

[bunanson]

New owner for 12 hr, everything was running, suddenly, website stop responding, wifi yellow light gone, wireless icon on network connection disappear. Try alot of thing, nothing worked. Packed the whole, get ready to take it back to bestbuy. Open again, just to see, wifi came back. Apparantly, one has to disconnect the power cable, or just close the lid, wifi will be back. I would call and send email to acer to get this fix soon.

bun

ACER/AO/winXP/120G/Bestbuy

 

[Cesium]

rebuilder:
I get the same error. Here's the output you wanted
.
Could not initialize settings file /home/user/.optsdksettings (rc=13)
** Message: <info> Option : LibInit failed!

maybe we aren't running it from the right directory?
I'm just opening terminal, a simple cd.. and it gives me the prompt " [user@localhost home]$ ". I'm assuming this is the directory you're talking about. I'm just learning about this linux directory/user stuff.

Have you looked at the terminal output when you run "sudo /usr/bin/nm-applet". There's a lot of gibberish about broken pipes. seems like nm-applet has a hard time starting up.

 

[Cesium]

scoobie: rebuilder:

figured out what rebuilder was doing.

scoobie- i think you did exactly what I did- tried to head back through the directory structure to get to what we thought was the "home directory"- i'm basing this on the prompt that you had quoted in your previous message
"[user@localhost home]$ sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings"

just open terminal - type nothing else but "sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings"

it'll just run and then you can restart and wireless is back up and running.

rebuilder: congrats- you figured it out faster than acer tech support could! You saved me from having to reinstall everything and reentering all of my contact info. Thanks a lot!

 

[Aceofspades]

Hey. Neither sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings or sudo /usr/bin/nm-applet will run on my one. They both give me no file or directory.

 

[Cesium]

have you checked using the file manager that the nm-applet still exists? maybe it got deleted?

 

[Aceofspades]

It's looking like they got deleted. Does anyone know where I could maybe get the update again and just put it on a thumb drive and reload ?

 

[bunanson]

It's looking like they got deleted. Does anyone know where I could maybe get the update again and just put it on a thumb drive and reload ?

Works for winXP,

Start menu>Settings>Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>Network Adapters, if there is an exclamation mark on atheros, disable and enable will get wifi back. If athero disappear after disable, Action>Scan for hardware changes will get wifi back.

bun

 

[Aceofspades]

Im running linux buns

 

[superguido]

Here's what I did. I tried all the other things like delete the ~/.gconf/system/networking folder and tried to chown the .optsdksetting file (didn't exist). I also tried to delete all the updates and non of that worked.

So I loaded up the recovery disc in my other laptop. Dropped the hdc1._.tar.bz2 onto a SD card. Then dropped the file onto the Aspire One. I bunzip2'd it and untarred it and lo and behold there's the whole file structure now in a secondary location for me to pick and choose the files I need. So I copied nm-applet over the existing one that was broken. Ran it, rebooted, ran it again and presto chango... it works.

So if all else has failed for you, try that.

 

[Guest]

New owner for 12 hr, everything was running, suddenly, website stop responding, wifi yellow light gone, wireless icon on network connection disappear. Try alot of thing, nothing worked. Packed the whole, get ready to take it back to bestbuy. Open again, just to see, wifi came back. Apparantly, one has to disconnect the power cable, or just close the lid, wifi will be back. I would call and send email to acer to get this fix soon.

I have been having the same problem. I hope acer solves this problem quickly or they will loose a lot of customers.

 

[Guest]

Everything points to that the last live update was a mistake of linpus (on my version of the AA1).

I solved it by emptying all subdirectories in /var/lib/online-updater including the log (backup first of course) then run live update. Every patch was downloaded again and installed (except the system080805.sh that wasn't supposed to be installed in the first place). It seems to have solved the problem with the erroneous patch. Could have been luck also, that the right files were patched again.

I did a backup of /var/lib/online-updater directory and tried to do live update. Unfortunately it did not work. It kept on telling me that I had a network problem. Now I have restored the original files to online-updater directory I still cannot do live update.

Could someone let me have the file attributes of the files in /var/lib/online-updater. Just pasting the output of ls -la here will be great.

TIA

 

[droon]

same here, linux dirs and all are just chinese to me. haha, netbooks, never have so many noobs been crashlanded into terminal country.

i've had this thing running for a few hours, did nothing but try and acces a mac wifi network and i can't restore my network capabilities OR change my keyboard layout to non-qwerty without following abstracts guideline clearly not written by people that are used to explaining thing to total noobs.

i can't find a place to download these so called updates from

so. once again, for the total noob: please, people that fixed it, explain in baby steps what needs to be done.

when i do alt-f2, i get something called terminal, when i type "sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings" and press run, the thing just dissapears, but nothing is different...

ow wait, when i do " sudo /usr/bin/nm-applet " it's telling me "couldn't communicate with gnome keyring daemon" ha! that sound awsome, this blasted thing is trying to communicate with hell, releasing gnomes and demons! it's all just one big trick to open the gates of the netherworld!

 

[pt1980]

Wow! Thanks rebuilder and Cesium.
Mine is just back to 'connected' again! and as u said, just need setting all the connections again.

my method is
- removing the networking folder from .gconf

rm -rf ~/.gconf/system/networking

and then i restart. (firstly i thought it might work)
- then using rebuilder's method

just open terminal - type nothing else but "sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings"

-then restart.

just work.

THANKS so much!

I was about to end my relationship with LINUX. (or even tho it's Acer's FAULT! )

 

[Prodigy.NL]

Here's what I did. I tried all the other things like delete the ~/.gconf/system/networking folder and tried to chown the .optsdksetting file (didn't exist). I also tried to delete all the updates and non of that worked.

So I loaded up the recovery disc in my other laptop. Dropped the hdc1._.tar.bz2 onto a SD card. Then dropped the file onto the Aspire One. I bunzip2'd it and untarred it and lo and behold there's the whole file structure now in a secondary location for me to pick and choose the files I need. So I copied nm-applet over the existing one that was broken. Ran it, rebooted, ran it again and presto chango... it works.

So if all else has failed for you, try that.

Like with you SuperGuido, notthing posted here worked for me.
I am totally new to linux, but when i tried to copy nm-applet and paste it i cant, the folder is protected and i cant paste anything in there, can someone tell me how i will be able to paste there?
(i assume you have to be logged in as root or something, but i have no idea how)

Thank you

 

[Prodigy.NL]

My father has a very big book about Linux and i found out how to get nm-applet on the place i want, but when i do /usr/bin/nm-applet i get the following error:
nm-applet: error while loading shared libraries: libnm-glib.so.0:cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When i do sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings i get the following error:
chown: cannot acces `.optsdksettings': No such file or directory

Can anyone give me a hint?

 

[Prodigy.NL]

I figured out that i dont have .optsdksettings on my Acer and i also can not find it on the recovery disk.
Can anyone send me this file over email?

 

[Prodigy.NL]

I did a google search on optsdksettings but it doesnt find anything at all, so i would say it isnt important at all.