KNetworkManager Stopped Working

[Nils Kassube]

Rick Knight wrote:
> At some point in the last 2 weeks knetworkmanager stopped working. I
> didn't notice until I tried to use my wireless connection at home. I
> had been connected to my wired network at work and all seemed to be
> working. Now knetworkmanager does not see or configure my wireless nic.
> Until a couple of weeks ago it did see my wireless and my wired and
> allowed me to move between them without any errors or problems. I've
> found a work around using wpa_supplicant but I would like to get
> knetworkmanager working again.
>
> I'm using Kubuntu Feisty Fawn on an HP nc 8230 Notebook PC with an
> IPW2200 wireless NIC.
> The wireless networks I connect to are WPA-PSK-TKIP and they work fine
> except for one network that uses WEP. I cannot connect to it using
> wpa_supplicant.
> Also, I've lost the knetworkmanager icons in system tray.
> I can think of nothing I have installed over the last couple of weeks
> that might have caused this problem, but that is a possible.

On my machine (Feisty with latest updates) sometimes knetworkmanager dies 
shortly after login to KDE (then the symbol in the tray is missing). When 
I start it again, it works from then on. You can start knetworkmanager 
from the menu: K -> Internet -> Knetworkmanager.

Maybe this is a dumb question: Did you logout of KDE or even reboot your 
laptop? While I always switch off while the machine is not in use, others 
may prefer to suspend to disk.


Nils