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Sometimes after waking from sleep, networking seems to fail on GalliumOS on my laptop.

Check status of network-manager with:

~ $ service network-manager status

If at the top it says failed in red (or, basically anything other than active (running) in green!) then network-manager needs restarting. This should do the trick:

~ $ sudo service network-manager restart

However, restarting network-manager seems to (sometimes?) crash the networking applet that sits in the Notification Area. (See bug report) If so, the network status icon will disappear from the Notificaiton Area. nm-applet can be restarted as follows:

~ $ killall nm-applet; nm-applet & disown

(based on comment #5 on the bug report above, and other ideas from SuperUser.com)

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