N/W manager applet disappears

[Colin Law]

On 18 July 2011 19:05, H.S.Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com> wrote:
> NetworkManager Applet 0.8.1 on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
> disappears when wifi is not available. Some times "sudo service
> network-manager restart" bring it back, but mostly it does not. In
> this way I am not able to connect through my datacard.
>
> Is there any way to keep N/W manager applet in panel (it used to be
> there earlier), whether some wifi connection is there or not.
>
> How to connect to a particular wifi connection / lan or ppp through
> some command or script, as I found commands are more reliable than
> GUI.

Many who have problems with network manager find that wicd works
better for them.  Myself included on one of my machines.

Colin