Network Manager or equivalent - where should I be able to find it?

[Chris G]

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:26:06AM +0100, Al Bogner wrote:
> Am Mo, 21 Mär 2011 09:59:28 CET schrieb Chris G:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 05:22:00PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> > > > > Start it manually, configure everything, so it is working, then
> > > > > add nm-applet to the autostart of XFCE, sorry don't know how it
> > > > > is called in English exactly.
> > > > > 
> > > > Ah, problem:-
> > > > 
> > > >     chris$ /usr/bin/nm-applet &
> > > >     [1] 10409
> > > >     chris$ An instance of nm-applet is already running.
> > > > 
> > > > However it's not visible anywhere, how can I get to see it?  :-)
> > > > 
> > > In fact there's something odd going on here. (I have other xubuntu
> > > systems where all seems to be well, not yet upgraded to 10.10 yet
> > > though). 
> > > 
> > > If I kill and restart the nm-applet it all *seems* to work OK but I
> > > still can't see anything, I definitely do have a notification area
> > > though and there are other things visible in it.
> > > 
> > >     chris$ which nm-applet
> > >     /usr/bin/nm-applet
> > >     chris$ /usr/bin/nm-applet &
> > >     [1] 10409
> > >     chris$ An instance of nm-applet is already running.
> > >     ^C
> > >     [1]+  Exit 1                  /usr/bin/nm-applet
> > >     chris$ ps -ef | grep nm-applet
> > >     chris     2930     1  0 Mar19 ?        00:00:00 nm-applet
> > > --sm-disable chris    10461  2790  0 17:16 pts/6    00:00:00 grep
> > > nm-applet chris$ kill -15 2930
> > >     chris$ ps -ef | grep nm-applet
> > >     chris    10467  2790  0 17:16 pts/6    00:00:00 grep nm-applet
> > >     chris$ nm-applet
> > >     ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
> > >     ** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area
> > >     ** (nm-applet:10469): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was
> > > not a disconnect 0
> > > 
> > Well I've found a solution - uninstall Network Manager and install
> > wicd instead, much better behaved, it doesn't mess about with
> > my /etc/hosts *and* it appears in the notification area OK.
> 
> Wicd doesn't support UMTS-connections or was there a change in the last
> months?
> 
What's a UMTS connection?  :-)

.... quick Google, ah, Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service. 
Presumably that means 3G type connections or similar, I don't think I
care about this for this particular case.

> With my Xubuntu 10.10 network-manager-gnome
> 0.8.1+git.20100809t190028.290dc70-0ubuntu3 works fine. Maybe you try to
> _purge_  your version and try again.
> 
> I noticed with the Opensuse 11.3-version, that the applet wasn't visible
> in the panel, but it became visible, when clementine was opened,
> which adds an icon to the panel. Maybe this is your problem.
> 
I think the non-appearance of NM is something to do with what I have in
/etc/network/interfaces:-

    # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
    # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

    # The loopback network interface
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback

    # The primary network interface
    iface eth0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.4
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.1.1

(This machine is 192.168.1.4 and its IP is fixed rather than being
obtained by DHCP, hence the above)

-- 
Chris Green