> 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 ;) Hi, I'm not sure if you're right here if I read Will Stephenson's post under point b), see [1] Martin Kho [1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-networkmanager/2009-November/000480.html > > > 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.
