Intrepid upgrade broke Network Manager

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:03:54AM +0100, custom at freenet.de wrote:
> I lost the ability to find wireless networks.  Network Manager and the
> top bar icon simply don't start.   So that leaves the Network
> Configuration to configure wireless networks manually and that works,
> however in order for that to work I need to know the SSID.. 

The Network Manager applet didn't start up automatically for me when I
upgraded to Intrepid on my laptop.  I had to manually run it (Alt+F2,
type nm-applet, press Enter) and then it worked fine.  I checked the
GNOME session preferences and it showed that nm-applet was supposed to
start up automatically.

This didn't happen when I upgraded my desktop; network manager started
up automatically.

> So now I find myself scanning networks on my phone, and then manually
> adding them..
> 
> Is this a known bug?

I haven't searched for it in launchpad.net yet.

Marius Gedminas
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