Network Management - probably pebcak needs sorting

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> On Monday 08 March 2010 11:21:21 Martin Kho wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Petrus de Calguarium
> > > 
> > > <kwhiskerz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > If I am not mistaken,, you have either
> > > > knetworkmanager or NetworkManager-gnome
> > > > installed, not both.
> > > 
> > > You can have both installed without a problem. If you have both you
> > > get a warning (get asked?) from knetworkmanager that another applet is
> > > running and if you want to use it or not in the future. So, one is
> > > always working.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Aren't both knetworkmanager and NetworkManager-gnome more or less
> > front-ends to NetworkManager? So if the network doesn't work, it has to
> > be NetworkManager that didn't detect the network-card, or did set up the
> > interface wrongly. Are there any error messages in /var/log/messages?
> 
> Messages appeared to be saying that the cabled connection was OK, but the
> wireless connection was disabled by 'killswitch'.  Since the hardware
> switch is in a position where it can get knocked off, I played around with
> it until Messages accepted that it is on.  However, when I got the
> authentication dialog there is no entry possibility for WPA!  This is
> definitely a regression.  I've had WPA with knetworkmanager before, I'm
> sure.
> 
> Oddly enough, ifconfig says it has an ipv6 address, but no ipv4 address.
> Meanwhile, the icon on the systray still tells me that the network is
> disabled.

Hi Anne,

Just a silly question. You don't - still - have the kde-plasma version of 
knetworkmanager installed?

Martin Kho

> 
> Anne


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