On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Ben Boeckel wrote:
Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> On 08/19/2009 06:21 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
>> I'm interested in re-testing kde-plasma-networkmanagement to
see if my issues
>> with connecting to WPA are fixed.
>>
>> How can I test without bricking my machine? IIRC, I need to
yum remove
>> NetworkManager-gnome. I don't want to do anything that
requires working net
>> to reverse. Could I just mv /usr/bin/nm-applet{,.save}
instead?
> I think you can just kill nm-applet while testing
> kde-plasma-networkmanagement and if it doesn't work you can
start
> nm-applet again.
That works. nm-applet will refuse to start if k-p-nm is running
and k-p-nm will only display nm-applet's status if it exists
when it starts. How it is now that it is no longer a plasmoid
(KDED service + system tray), I don't know. A session restart at
least I imagine.
Thanks. Tried it. Still doesn't connect to my wireless. Tried restarting
NetworkManager also. Log isn't even useful:
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): preparing device.
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): deactivating device
(reason: 2).
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): device state change:
2 -> 3 (reason 0)
Aug 19 18:39:59 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <info> (wlan0): supplicant interface
state: starting -> ready
Aug 19 18:41:00 nbecker1 NetworkManager: <WARN>
wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/1 failed to activate (timeout): (0)
Connection was not provided by any settings service