Network Manager oddness (what's new you may ask!)

[Res]

Chris, if you don't use VPN via NM, I suggest you look at wicd to replace 
NM.


On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Chris G wrote:

> Until recently the Network Manager applet in my top panel did what it
> was supposed to do and caused no problems.
>
> Just recently though (not sure when this happened as I rarely use it)
> it seems to have lost the plot somewhat.  When I right click on it and
> select Connection Information from the menu it just pops up amessage
> box saying:-
>
>    Error displaying connection information:
>    No valid active connections found!
>
> But everything is actually working fine, my computer is on a LAN
> behind a router, I can see the other systems on the LAN and I can use
> the internet as I always could.
>
> If I click on Edit Connections then the *only* connection that Network
> Manager seems to know about is a Mobile Broadband one which I don't
> use and which is correctly set not to connect automatically.  Nothing
> shows up in Wired which is where my working connection should be.
>
>

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Res

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