Network-manager motor is running...who's driving? Not me.
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Distribution: Hardy (Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04) on Compaq N600c laptop
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Network-manager motor is running...who's driving? Not me.
Installed and (uninstalled and) reinstalled network-manager. No steering wheel. Tried running every process that begins with "network-manager..." but still no interface, no icon, etc. And documentation?
Distribution: Hardy (Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04) on Compaq N600c laptop
Posts: 323
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Yeah...tried that too. Thanks for the suggestion though. It says something along the lines of:
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** (nm-applet:24251): WARNING **: <WARN> applet_dbus_manager_start_service(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service as it is already taken. Return: 3
Distribution: Hardy (Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04) on Compaq N600c laptop
Posts: 323
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Thanks. What a lame-brain I am for not trying that first. It might be worth noting for others that in order to start it without being tethered to a terminal screen, "nohup nm-applet" will do the trick, though perhaps there is a better way.
Now the question is, should this not show up in every user's system tray?
More than likely - simply because nm-applet assumes control of all of your networking. It would be much like the Windows system tray and network tray icons combination.
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