sound icon/network manager missing

[G.]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:48 PM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That was the first thing I tried.  By the way, if I use the Netbook
>> interface it works fine, it's the Gnome interface that gives the
>> problem.
>>
> I think I ran into this when I first installed Ubuntu on my laptop,
> before I made myself sick staying up too late at night to put it on my
> desktop.
>
> There are two or three different Preferences and possibly
> administrative settings that all have to agree on exactly what you
> want where.  on is having a notification area on the panel, which you
> do, one is setting up the power settings for the right displays, and
> there's a third one that actually controls what gets displayed in the
> notification area when you want a power applet there, but that's as
> far as I can make out four weeks later - it's all become fuzzy to me.
>
> Sorry I can't be more specific - what I did was poke into every
> setting that had anything to do with power, battery, etc.  I can only
> tell you that there _is_ a configuration that works.  FTR, I installed
> the standard Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, so the Netbook was never even
> a contender, I just went straight to GNOME.
>
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So the desktop ubuntu is what you installed?

To add to my mystery, I ran the latest updates and voila, in the Gnome
version of the Desktop I now have the Network manager but not the
sound.  In my second user, I have sound but not the Network Manager,
also using Gnome.  Using the Netbook version I have everything.  Too
bad I am not too fond of the interface.