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

[Matt Price]

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On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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