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Firestarter will not schare connection over wireless - wlan0 is not ready

Asked by jamiehay

When trying to configure firestarter for ICS it always says device wlan0 is not ready.

why is it not ready?? whats wrong with it?? and how do I fix it??

2 weeks an counting, still no answers please someone help me

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Jimbo (james-saveker) said : 		#1

I tried the following fix myself and it worked (from the Ubuntu Firestarter Docs).... let me know how you get on.

Apparently there is a conflict between Firestarter and Network manager.

The "fix" is to edit /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh

gksu gedit /etc/firestarter/firestarter.sh

Comment out :

if [ "$MASK" = "" -a "$1" != "stop" ]; then
echo "External network device $IF is not ready. Aborting.."
exit 2
fi

Like this:

#if [ "$MASK" = "" -a "$1" != "stop" ]; then
#echo "External network device $IF is not ready. Aborting.."
#exit 2
#fi

Save your changes and re-boot.

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