NetworkManager

[Niran Babalola]

If you are not using ndiswrapper, then I don't know what's causing
your problem. If you are and you're running Warty, NetworkManager
won't work for you. The ndiswrapper version that Warty shipped with
doesn't tell HAL the capabilities that is has. NetworkManager asks HAL
for all the wireless capable devices and works with those. Since
ndiswrapper doesn't tell it anything, NetworkManager thinks that only
a wired ethernet device is available. In this case, when you run
NetworkManagerInfo, it won't display anything in your panel, since
it's useless if you only have a wired device.

Two options:
1) Use netapplet.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/gnome/netapplet
Download the package and install it with "dpkg -i". When you want to
use wireless, run netapplet (the package created a menu entry in
Applications -> Other). It's been a bit buggy for me, but it's better
than nothing.
2) Upgrade to Hoary. I think the preferred wireless solution for Hoary
is netapplet which has an Ubuntufied package in the Hoary
repositories. If you still want to use NetworkManager, which from what
I hear seems to be a bit better, it should work in Hoary, because I
think ndiswrapper fixed that problem since Warty was released.

Personally, I'm using netapplet for now, and upgrading to Hoary when
the Preview Release comes out (March 9th I think). When I upgrade,
I'll probably switch to NetworkManager.

Good luck!

- Niran


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:29:01 -0500, R S Gill <rsgill at purdue.edu> wrote:
> I did exactly as the wiki said to do. That included setting
> networkmanagerinfo to launch at startup and restarting dbus.
> 
> Nothing happens. I see the notification area move a little but no icon
> or any visible sign that networkmanager is running. In all this time, my
> network connections are dead.
> 
> Gill
> 
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> Ed Fletcher wrote:
> > R S Gill wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Can someone please tell me how to start NetworkManager. I followed all
> >> the instructions in the Ubuntu NetworkManager Wiki but all that
> >> happens is that my network connections are killed.
> >>
> >> I DO NOT see anything resembling networkmanager in my task bar.
> >>
> >> Gill
> >
> >
> > Did you do this step:
> >
> > Go to Desktop Preferences and then the Sessions option - this is under
> > Advanced in Debian.
> > In the Startup Programs tab, click Add
> > type "NetworkManagerInfo", click OK.
> > log out of your gnome session, and log back in again.
> >
> >  From http://people.ubuntu.com/~thom/network-manager/
> >
> > Ed
> 
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