Howto restart network-manager to solve "Networking disabled"

[xenopeek]

So, today I had this random annoying problem when I was browsing the web with Firefox. One minute the internet was fine, the next minute the internet was gone and on top of that the network-manager applet stopped working (even when I restarted the computer, it persisted). The nm-applet was greyed out and it said "Networking disabled". If anyone ever has this problem, I hope this solution will find you well. I looked all over Ubuntu forums (many people had the same problem as me), but the forum's answers didn't work for me.

☺Thank yous go to Praveen, the dude came up with it: http://www.geekyard.com/os/linux-os/fix ... ntu-10-04/

So basically, you open up the terminal and type in these commands

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service network-manager stop
rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
service network-manager start

The problem was fixed immediately for my case, but you may need to restart the computer.

[xenopeek]

Moved here by moderator

[Terminal(ly)-Ill]

I'm still very new but maybe try this:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=92488

edit: whoops, wrong thread, sorry for the bump, was meant for another thread.

[rdonnelly]

I just RMB networking on the panel near the clock, untick enable, then retick enable and it restarts.

[sagirfahmid3]

I just RMB networking on the panel near the clock, untick enable, then retick enable and it restarts.

That was the first thing I tried. How can I do that if networking is disabled? So...no...

[kallli]

So, I'm having the same problem with my wireless internet connection. I pasted the code into the terminal, restarted the computer, and nothing changed. Any suggestions?

[sagirfahmid3]

Ok, first become admin:
terminal> su
enter password
NOW, type in those commands again and see if it works

[kallli]

it didn't work - i'm just realizing that the original post may be for a wired network? I'm having trouble with my wireless network - would the code be something completely different?

[sagirfahmid3]

No, that happened on my lappy on my wi-fi. I don't know about wired problem. I dunno, sorry