[SOLVED] Network Manager - Device not ready

Question

Hey,
I can't use the wlan feature of networkmanager because its grayed out with "device not ready" written on it. 
My wlan device is definitely enabled.
iwconfig:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off
I use the
Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
thx 4 help
Last edited by GNA (2011-04-13 09:13:25)

Answer 1

ls -l /var/run/daemons:
total 0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 acpid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 crond
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 dbus
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 laptop-mode
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 netfs
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 networkmanager
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr  5 09:27 syslog-ng
groups:
lp wheel rfkill games network video audio optical storage scanner power
users networkmanager
I was originally not in the network and networkmanager group but tried adding myself in the course of reading your post, because I thought maybe that could be the reason, but it didn't change anything
I had to create the networkmanager group because it was not existent but https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups#Groups says this group should exist.
Last edited by GNA (2011-04-05 14:00:08)