I've just (overnight) run the Adept Package Manger to upgrade to the latest Kubuntu version. After the warm restart it could log in to my (secure) wireless network so it must have remembered the key. I then did a cold start and it doesn't log in to the wireless network. The card shows as enabled in the network manager under System Settings but Knetworkmanager does not show any active devices. Even when I log in to Administrator mode I cannot highlight anything in the Sytem Settings network manager so I cannot reset the properties.

I've tried iwconfig ra0 key XXXXXX but that didn't help. It's a RALINK card which worked fine until I upgraded (was Kubuntu 7.04).

Any clues very welcome please,
Ross

The answer, if anyone's interested, was that /etc/Networks/interfaces had the wireless card SSID and key data under ra1 while the OS had the card as ra0. Editing the interfaces file to ra0 and rebooted and it was working straight away. I think I had problems when doing the original instal and ended up with two instances of the card (ra0 and ra1) but the version upgrade, correctly, only found one instance and called it ra0 but there was no SSID/key data for it.

This might be good information to post in the ubuntu forums...

cheers