Okay, so I appear to have internet again, more or less, but now there's
something odd happening with tdenetworkmanager.
For the past day or so, since sometime Sunday evening, I have not been able to
use internet at all. I keep checking the connection, try out the installation
image on a flash drive, just to see if networks are showing up there, but
nothing conclusive.
Then it occurred to me to start tdenetworkmanager as root, and presto! I can
configure it to work, and everything is back to normal; except, I cannot
close down the root version of tdenetworkmanager, then return to the non-root
version. The non-root tdenetworkmanager, just myself as user, still will not
connect. The networks show up, but once I try to connect, they disappear, and
I cannot get on at all.
This does not seem right.
Awhile back I resolved some connectivity issues (been meaning to mention this,
but it's an old thread now); I booted into my backup desktop, xfce, started
xfce as root, set my local network so that I did not connect automatically,
then got out of root, and everything since then ran fine.
I returned to my Trinity desktop, and did not think about xfce again, until I
had to do some reinstallation. Until these past two weeks, and now again the
past day or so, I have not had any network issues.
Everything has worked just fine, until we had flooding in our building, and
internet was out for nearly two weeks past, up until sometime Friday night or
Saturday. Then I had a day or so of my usual internet, then a couple days
past where I have these problems just described above.
And now this: only able to use the tdenetworkmanager as root. Also, it seems I
cannot install or use wicd, which is my usual backup.
Does any of this make any sense? Am I losing my mind, or is it the machines
that are making me crazy?
Bill
