re-testing kde-plasma-networkmanagement

[Neal Becker]

On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 08/19/2009 06:21 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> >> I'm interested in re-testing kde-plasma-networkmanagement to
>
> see if my issues
>
> >> with connecting to WPA are fixed.
> >>
> >> How can I test without bricking my machine?  IIRC, I need to
>
> yum remove
>
> >> NetworkManager-gnome.  I don't want to do anything that
>
> requires working net
>
> >> to reverse.  Could I just mv /usr/bin/nm-applet{,.save}
>
> instead?
>
> > I think you can just kill nm-applet while testing
> > kde-plasma-networkmanagement and if it doesn't work you can
>
> start
>
> > nm-applet again.
>
> That works. nm-applet will refuse to start if k-p-nm is running
> and k-p-nm will only display nm-applet's status if it exists
> when it starts. How it is now that it is no longer a plasmoid
> (KDED service + system tray), I don't know. A session restart at
> least I imagine.
>

Thanks.  Tried it.  Still doesn't connect to my wireless.  Tried restarting 
NetworkManager also.  Log isn't even useful:

Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device.
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device 
(reason: 2).
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 
2 -> 3 (reason 0)
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant interface 
state:  starting -> ready
Aug 19 18:41:00 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <WARN>  
wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2) 
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/1 failed to activate (timeout): (0) 
Connection was not provided by any settings service