Network Management - probably pebcak needs sorting

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 03/08/2010 07:21 AM, Martin Kho wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Petrus de Calguarium
>>
>> <kwhiskerz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> If I am not mistaken,, you have either
>>> knetworkmanager or NetworkManager-gnome
>>> installed, not both.
>>
>> You can have both installed without a problem. If you have both you
>> get a warning (get asked?) from knetworkmanager that another applet is
>> running and if you want to use it or not in the future. So, one is
>> always working.
>
> Hi,
>
> Aren't both knetworkmanager and NetworkManager-gnome more or less front-ends
> to NetworkManager?

Yes.

  So if the network doesn't work, it has to be NetworkManager
> that didn't detect the network-card, or did set up the interface wrongly.

Not really. I recently had a case where knetworkmanger would just not 
connect to a WPA2 access point (tried 3 or 4 times) but nm-applet 
connected up on the first try.


  Are
> there any error messages in /var/log/messages?
>
> Martin Kho
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