NetworkManager

[R S Gill]

I forgot to mention in my previous posts that I am running Hoary.

Gill


"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood 
of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time 
that men have died to win them" -- FDR

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men 
stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- George Orwell


Niran Babalola wrote:
> 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
>>
>>"From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood
>>of tyrants and patriots." -- Thomas Jefferson
>>
>>"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time
>>that men have died to win them" -- FDR
>>
>>"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men
>>stand ready to do violence on their behalf" -- George Orwell
>>
>>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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>>
>>
>>
> 
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