WIreless trouble

[Matthias Andersson]

Anthony M Simonelli wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 01:47 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:11:47 +0300
>> Matthias Andersson <matthias.andersson at kotikone.fi> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I have lost the grahpic icon for the wireless network (the two dots, 
>>> gnome-network-manager) and haven't been able to recover the icon. I'm 
>>> now unable to connect to my wireless network (using WPA) without running 
>>> wpa_client in a terminal.
>>>
>>>
>>> I know this problem is trivial but it would be nice to get rid of the 
>>> work-around.
>>>       
>> Try running
>>
>> nm-applet &
>>
>> in a terminal. this should give you your network applet back... 
>> If the network fails to connect when you enable networking from the applet,
>> try running
>>
>> sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
>>
>> Once you have the nm-applet back, you can save your session in
>> System-> Preferences-> Sessions, and it should reappear on each GNOME
>> login.
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>     
> In System-> Preferences -> Sessions, Click the new button and put
> "Network Manager" for the Name and "nm-applet --sm-disable" for the
> command.  Click "OK", make sure the check-box is checked next to it, log
> off and log back in and it should appear.
>
>
>   
Thank you for the help.
//Matthias