sound icon/network manager missing

[G.]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

This problem may have something to do with switching users.  I logged
off of both accounts and logged back into my Spanish language version,
I have both volume and sound icons.

gary