knetworkmanager broken after 4.2

[Gerald B. Cox]

Thanks Anne, will do so later today.  What do you folks think about
the new plasmoid?  Any chance we could get that into a repo to play
with?  Looks like it will be the replacement to knetworkmanager.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 10:12:45 Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
>> Dne Wednesday 11. of February 2009 08:46:41 Anne Wilson napsal(a):
>> > On Wednesday 11 February 2009 04:38:32 Gerald B. Cox wrote:
>> > > I apologize upfront if I missed something but -  I noticed since
>> > > applying the 4.2 updates from the test repository that knetworkmanager
>> > > no longer works for me to connect to wireless.  Wired networks appear
>> > > to work fine.  The only way I've seen to get around this is to install
>> > > NetworkManager-gnome.  When this is installed knetworkmanager works
>> > > fine (but isn't really needed since NetworkManager-gnome is
>> > > installed....  duh...).
>> > >
>> > > I did some searching and found:
>> > > http://www.osnews.com/story/20758/KDE_4_2_Progress_New_NetworkManager_P
>> > >la sm oid_Coming
>> > >
>> > > which looks like the old knetworkmanager is on the way out (or with
>> > > 4.2 appears already gone... ;-) )
>> > >
>> > > The new plasmoid isn't going to be distributed until 4.3 but
>> > > apparently is available to test with now.
>> > >
>> > > What's the current direction on this?  Use NetworkManager-gnome until
>> > > 4.3, make the plasmoid available to use or fix the old
>> > > knetworkmanager?
>> > >
>> > > That said, so far I'm really pleased with 4.2 - things appear to be
>> > > working fine!
>> >
>> > Confirmed.  Last night's update brought me
>> >
>> > Name        : NetworkManager               Relocations: (not relocatable)
>> > Version     : 0.7.0                             Vendor: Fedora Project
>> > Release     : 2.git20090207.fc10            Build Date: Sat 07 Feb 2009
>> > 02:39:06 PM GMT
>> > Install Date: Tue 10 Feb 2009 02:39:24 PM GMT      Build Host:
>> > x86-6.fedora.phx.redhat.com
>> > Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM:
>> > NetworkManager-0.7.0-2.git20090207.fc10.src.rpm
>> >
>> > Before that I had been using knetworkmanager with NetworkManager-gnome
>> > uninstalled.  This morning I could get no connection.  Installing
>> > NetworkManager-gnome connected immediately after a reboot.
>> >
>> > Anne
>>
>> Please file a bugreport, preferably against NetworkManager if you suspect
>> its recent update broke the wireless networking for networkmanager-kde
>
> Done - #485097.  Gerald, please add your comments.
>
> Anne
>
> _______________________________________________
> fedora-kde mailing list
> fedora-kde at lists.fedoraproject.org
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kde
>
>