Help with networkmanager-gnome

[Bob Herrmann]

I have a dell laptop (Inspirion 9100) with the dell wireless card (1350) 
and by using the ndiswrapper and the WinXP driver, I am able to access 
the net - no problems.   I also added the *wireless signal strength 
monitor* applet to panel at it appears to be working just fine.

Cheers,
-bob

Bikehead wrote:

> I started down this road when I went to add the "wireless monitor" 
> applet to my FC3 task bar on my Dell laptop.  It added an applet that 
> reports the network manager is not running.  After some searching 
> around on the web I found that I could start the NetworkManager 
> service which I did.  Now the applet complains that there are no 
> devices available....
>
> So my questions are:
> 0.  Is the network manager ready for prime-time?  Why is the "wireless 
> monitor" applet dependent on it when it can't recoginize my wireless 
> card?
>
> 1.  There doesn't seem to be a way to remove the applet.  My normal 
> method of right clicking to get the action menu where I can usually 
> "remove applet" only shows the "network manager not running" dialog
>
> 2.  What is the magic of configuring the network manager service?
>