[ale] wireless troubles

[damon at damtek.com (Damon L. Chesser)]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:10 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed May 5 2010, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Ubuntu 10.4 on a Dell Latitude E6500.
> >
> > Wireless is simply flaky.  Often times after rebooting the wireless card
> > is disabled, even though the physical switch is on. Rebooting will
> > sometimes resolve this issue.
> 
> on my Dell XPS M140 ( 4 years old) it works fine. When I tried other distros 
> which will remain nameless, I had to uninstall network-manager and install 
> wicd. Mine has the Intel-Pro wireless.
> 
> 

I was going to recommend wicd as well.  sudo aptitude install wicd, add
users to netdev group, reboot, test.  It might be NetworkManager hosing
you up.
-- 
Damon
damon at damtek.com