2010/3/8 Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)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(a)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.