2010/3/8 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>: > On Monday 08 March 2010 13:14:19 Martin Kho wrote: >> > 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? >> > Seems that I do. ?I installed it and never got around to sorting it out. ?I > think that maybe the tray icon I'm complaining about is from that. ?OK - so > removed the plasma object - the icon remains. ?I'll try a reboot in a moment > to see whether the network activates properly. ?Funny, though, in the past > I've always been able to see the cabled connection even if the wireless one > wasn't available. The networkmanagemnt plasmoid does right now nothing except popup a message that it's deprecated in favor of the systray applet. Doesn't matter if it's installed or not. I guess the worst thing that could happen is that it makes plasma-desktop crash. Well, that would actually be bad ;) > In desperation I installed every tool I could see to help troubleshoot this. > wlassistant tells me "Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No > such file or directory ?CONNECTION FAILED". ?If things don't work after the > reboot I'll see whether it's still getting that message. Do try the NetoworkManager-gnome (nm-applet). I had a different problem, not solvable with knetworkmanager, but with nm-applet. -- LG Thomas Dubium sapientiae initium
