NetworkManager

[R S Gill]

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Yes, I do see NetworkManager come up during the boot process.

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:
| Are you seeing NetworkManager loading during the boot process?  It
| should come a few lines after the machine attempts to set up a network
| connection.
|
| Ed
|
| R S Gill wrote:
|
|> 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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