Help with networkmanager-gnome
Bikehead
bikehead at amberpoint.com
Mon Oct 11 16:55:01 UTC 2004
Just to be clear. I have wireless access. It the networkmanager-gnome
applet and it's companion NetworkManager service that doesn't seem to be
working. The NetworkManger service is different than the "networking"
service.
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_-\<,_ Brian
(_)/ (_) bikehead at amberpoint.com x503
Bob Herrmann wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>
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