WIFI Widget (on task bar) not working after Upgrading to KDE 4..13.3

[Clay Weber]

On Sunday, November 23, 2014 01:44:05 AM James R McKenzie wrote:
> This latest "upgrade" for KDE is turning into a nightmare.
> 
> The WIFI widget in the task bar won't load therefore all it shows is a red
> square and a white X in the square. A little more upgrading and I won't be
> able to use the damned computer a all.
> 
> Any ideas on what's up with the WIFI widget? BTW the WIFI goes to sleep
> after a while and I have to physically unplug the dongle then plug in back
> in the restart it. What the hell is going on with thus stuff!? It's
> literally not possible to over react to this!
> 
> Any/All help will be appreciated.
What version of Kubuntu are you using, and where are you getting updates from? 
(4.13.3 has been in the official Ubuntu Trusty Updates repos  since August)
Check to see that you have plasma-nm installed.
Are there any packages that are being "held back" when updating?

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