On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 06:51 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 01/03/14 05:25, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > The problem, for me at least, with KDE's "kde-plasma-nm" is > > that it doesn't work, whereas Gnome's "network-manager-applet" works > > perfectly. I spent a couple of hours yesterday trying to get a laptop > > on which I had just installed a KDE Fedora Spin to connect to my home > > network, using "kde-plasma-nm". No connection and no indication of what > > the problem could be, though it's possible that I just did something > > really stupid like not being finding the "Connect" button or whatever. > > Network-manager-applet worked perfectly on the first try; I didn't even > > have to enter the hot spot info, which was available from data that I > > had entered into NetworkManager using "kde-plasma-nm". Any advice about > > how to use "kde-plasma-nm" or what might be wrong with it is earnestly > > I tested just now and I had no real trouble with it. I don't have a > laptop. I used a VBox VM and a USB WiFi dongle. > > 1. Plugged in the dongle and connected it to the VM. > 2. Clicked on the network icon in the systray, no changes. Clicked > to close and waited 5 or so seconds and clicked again. > 3. Several Access points listed under "Unknown Connection". > 4. Clicked on my home AP and a password prompt and a few check-boxes > were available. The one thing I didn't like was you could click on > the wrench in the upper right but when you did the next display showed > information about the connection but the "Edit Connection" button was > grayed out. > 5. Entered password and got connected after a few seconds. > 6. I now could go back and click on the wrench and "Edit Connection" > as I want. I find it odd that I would have to allow a connection to > fail with default settings before being allowed to edit it when I know > the defaults wouldn't be successful. Pretty much the same as what I did, except that I have a hidden network, so I had to enter its name. Now that I have connected once using network-manager-applet, kde-plasma-nm appears to work properly; when I click on the network identifier, I see a "Connect" button, which connects. So further investigation will not be easy. Foo! Thanks for your help. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
