whoah! network manager won't let me use new wireless card

[Tyler Aviss]

Do you see it with ifconfig/iwconfig?
On Oct 5, 2012 12:07 PM, "Matt Price" <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I have just installed a new wireless card in my Thinkp[ad T410 and it
> seems to work pretty well (yay). However, my Ubuntu Quantal system is
> having some trouble with it.  As root I can access the card, add new
> connections, and so forth.  But as a normal user I can't use the
> wireless at all.  All of my old connections are still visible, but
> I've lost my permission to edit them.  This is in my main account,
> where I have full admin privileges.
>
> What I'm guessing is that network-manager doesn't quite understand the
> new card somehow, and isn't giving up permissions to the user.  I've
> tried various googlable solutions, mostly involving changing the
> poermissions in polkit, but they don't seem to have worked so far.
> Anyone know what I ought to do? I feel like network-manger needs to
> somehow reregister this card, but I don't know how to make that
> happen.
>
> If anyone has suggestions... I'd appreciatethem!
>
> Thanks
>
> Matt
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