People,
I have installed the b43 WiFi driver (from memory I think I had problems with the b43-fwcutter RPM and had to install it manually) but in any case it works generally with this old NetBook both in X and from the console - _IF_ I log in from the netbook first . . if I reboot the NetBook remotely and try and ssh to it when it comes back up, the network isn't accessible. So I thought I would go through the exercise of getting rid of NetworkManager and going back to a traditional network setup and I followed the instructions here:
https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/disabling-networkmanager-step-b...
- which didn't actually work - the problem is, as soon as I do:
systemctl stop NetworkManager
the little LED WiFi light goes out on the keyboard and it seems there is nothing I can do to get it on again - the manual slider switch does not work (I just get kbd unrecognised key errors). lsmod reports that all the modules are still loaded as for NetworkManager. As soon as I restart NetworkManager, the WiFi light comes back on - so the question is: what is NM doing to enable the WiFi switch? I think if I could find that out, I could get the traditional networking to function . .
From the attached /var/log/messages, you can see the result of:
systemctl stop NetworkManager
before the:
"================================================================"
and the result of:
systemctl start NetworkManager
after. You can see the wlan0 deauthenticating and "link is not ready" messages.
Not sure where to go from here - suggestions?
Thanks,
Phil.