Try turning the wireless on! Just flip the switch opposite the Intel Atom logo (on the lower right corner of the bottom hinge of the chassis). I had this same problem when I first got my Aspire One.

hi,

something strange happened to my acer aspire when I turned it off yesterday -

-network centre stopped running (no internet)
-xfce4-panel crashed and would not restart
-few other minor things that I can't recall now

I've managed to rebuild the xfce4-panel from scratch. However, the network centre is dead (I click on the icon and nothing happens).

Now I've read the threads and tried all the suggested solutions:

---> clearing the directory by rm -rf ~/.gconf/system/networking did not help. On inspection, the system directory was empty, ie the networking directory was not there.
same goes for going down to the root and repeating the same.


---> And yet typing [root@localhost bin]# rpm -qa |grep -i networkmanager gives me
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-daily.lp.080416
NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-lp.0025.o.1
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-daily.lp.080416
NetworkManager-0.7.0-lp.0025.o.1
NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-lp.0025.o.1

so something exists there

--> typing sudo /usr/bin/nm-applet gives a stream of messages, events and warnings, which is too long to reproduce here. Then terminal hangs up, but interestingly, when I try to open the network centre in the usual way the terminal unhangs and goes to cursor with message (nm-applet:8316): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_present_with_time:assertion 'GTK_IS WINDOW (window)" failed.

--> while sudo chown user:user .optsdksettings says that .optsdksettings cannot be found


any other suggestions? Thanks. It's a refurbished computer, so I've no documentation or startup disks.

You should open new thread because most people will not see that you're asking new question.