Hey all,

So I just did a fresh install of Fedora 7 on my desktop and I was wondering how to get the "Network Manager" applet to show up. My bother did an install off of the Live CD onto his laptop and it came standard in the toolbar. I went to "Add to Panel" and there was no 'Network manager' as an option. Any ideas?

Computer Details
OS: Fedora 7
Kernel: 2.6.21
Arch: i386
Desktop: GNOME v2.18.2

I was wondering the same thing yesterday, and I found it on fedoraproject.org/wiki. This is what they have for Fedora 6, but I just installed Fedora 7 as well, and it worked for me.

Set the main service to automatically start on boot: su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on'

Set the dispatcher service to automatically start on boot: su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on'

Start the services: su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start ; /sbin/service NetworkManagerDispatcher start'

For each su command, enter the root password at the prompt.

Is Network Monitor in the "add to panel" window, not network Manager
The applet will show as 2 small computers and you can click on it to select an alternate network connection or right click to see the properties of the current connection.

As root run and enable NetworkManager and NetworkManager dispatch. Then the NetworkManager Applet should appear but you may have to reboot though.