How to see available wireless networks on 12.10?

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I'm using a Dell Inspiron laptop with Ubuntu 12.10. I am new to Linux.

I am typing this from a wired connection because I cannot find how to set up my wireless router. When I first installed 12.10 it gave me a men in the install wizard to set up WiFi but when I restarted it turned off. I cannot figure out how to get wireless, or to see available wireless routers.

WiFi is on and works with my iPad but I literally cannot find the place to enable WiFi on this OS. What am I doing wrong?

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 05 '12 at 15:39

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It might be the nm-applet hanging. I've had problems with it listing the available networks right after login. The solution is to kill and restart it.

sudo killall nm-applet && nm-applet &

answered Nov 05 '12 at 15:39

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VedVals · Answer 2 · 2012-11-05T14:07:35.247

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Make sure that your wifi hardware switch is on or not. It is either F2 or F12 or near to it. Once the switch is enabled, there is a small fan-like applet on the top panel (Gnome Network Manager), fourth from the right.

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Click on it and if there is no tick mark on the option 'Enable Wireless', enable it. Wait till your wifi connection name appears.

edited Nov 05 '12 at 14:07

answered Nov 05 '12 at 13:56

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How to see available wireless networks on 12.10?

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