The applet should not be present when you only have a wired card in the computer. However, it _should_ show when you have more than 1 device, or when you have _any_ wireless devices plugged in and in-use. Other behaviors are likely bugs. BTW, what's your onboard wireless card's driver and model? Dan On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 12:00 -0400, Amitabha Roy wrote: > I have noticed that the applet does come up on plugging in a wireless PC card, > however I dont see that behaviour for builtin wireless cards, though, IMHO, > they should work the same way. > > I am *hoping* that NetworkManager will be good enough soon to solve > these issues. > Its my single most desired RFE for linux. Going from office to home to > Starbucks, > I have to manually change settings and log out of X (because xauth does not > allow display to new hostname).