"wireless disabled in software"

[Timothy Murphy]

Timothy Murphy wrote:

> WiFi on my Thinkpad T60 has stopped working recently.
> I'm running Fedora-15/KDE.
> 
> When I hover over the NetworkManager icon in the panel
> I read "Disconnected   Wireless disabled in software"

I discovered the cause of the problem:
NetworkManager had written
"WirelessEnabled=false" in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
for some reason;
and re-booting did not change this entry.


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