no wireless after linuxmce install

[rthuey]

hi
so i had a perfect install of 7.10 on an old machine i had laying around
networkmanager and wireless worked fine
then i installed linuxmce and i think that went fine as well

now when i go back into kubuntu networkmanager was not there. i tried to run it from the console and it said i needed to install it. i did.
now when i click on it i do not see the list of wireless available. added my connection manually but it does not.

also to note that this is like the 20th attempt to configure both of these on this machine. in previous attempts i did not have this issue. other ones but not this.

so i started system from live cd and i can connect to my wireless.

what i would like to try is to shorten my network interface file to

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

which is what is on the live cd and mentioned in several threads. but when i make the changes and try to save i get no write access message.
i tried getting to the file while in live cd but it said i did not have access to the drive that has the file.

what is the proper way of doing this?

[hari]

use a config file for wpa_supplicant and forget networkmanager. It won't be active when the system boots into lmce.

br, Hari

[rthuey]

sure i'm easy i'll try that. when i did though i had to create a new wpa_supplicant.conf file for the etc folder. since there was not one. but when i went to save it i was told i did not have authorization for folder /home/linuxmce

figured i would log off and specifically log in  as that user. thinkin windows log out screen. machine would not log out though. just kind of did nothing.

[Zaerc]

Try putting sudo in front of the command (it will likely ask you for the  password of the current user you are logged in as).

[rthuey]

well i sudo'd when i did this

sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

but to make the .conf file i had just opened a blank kate editor and copied the example from a non protected, as compared to wep or wpa, example and tried to save it and got shot down

[Zaerc]

sudo kate perhaps?

[rthuey]

worth the try

have 2 figure out why i am getting a blank screen now after the kubuntu splash screen first

[rthuey]

i am getting better with this

started computer with live cd

sudo mount /dev/sda2  allowed me to get to drive

sudo kate    allowed me to open files i needed, in this case interfaces first and then looked at xorg there were 3 copies of it. renamed the current one to version 3. renamed the second to xorg and rebooted.

came back up with with wireless and a screen that i can see

in addition to it recognixzing the tv card and asking me for the tv guide login info.

very excited now.

[rthuey]

tried

sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant

did not like apt-get install??

bed time i guess