Knetworkmanager

ok so i got my wireless working by using Knetworkmanager installed via terminal. i had the icon on the top panel to the right side near my ethernet/sound/calendar/clock. by accident i removed the Knetworkmanager icon.

i already removed it (KNM) via synaptic package manager, and then reinstalled it via terminal..but i cannot get it back up there on the panel. also, everytime i start it (applications > internet > knetworkmanager), nothing happens. all i see is the box expand, and thats it..

anyone know?

tyia.

 

I don't use knetwork manager, but I do use kmail, and in order to get kmail to go into the corner by the clock when I close the window requires that I check a box in the config settings that says for it to show up there. You might need to look for something like that. The icon that shows up for me when I have a network connection is KNemo. That might be the one that you want. It may have gotten removed with Knetworkmanager. I can't say for sure.

General rule of thumb: don't add/remove packages by the gui. Press CTR-ALT-F1 and get to a tty. Then shut down X Server and kdm. When you add/remove packages that interact with the running X-Server or KDE you are just asking to break your system in ways that are REALLY hard to track down and fix.

 

pbcustom, are you even using KDE? from your description, it sounds like you are using GNOME in a default configuration (do you have a panel at the top and the bottom,) in which case you need the GNOME version of networkmanager.

sudo apt-get remove knetworkmanager
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

try that out.

 

noahshark - thanks, ill try and keep that in mind

bigv -- yes i am using gnome (what do you mean by a default configuration--just a standard 2 bar top/bottom setup?).

i will give it a shot later on today..

thanks

 

If you're using GNOME, then what BigV said will work.

 

yea, i dont know where i read it, but i probably mixed up what i read, but i thought it told me the KNM would work on gnome...maybe i was mistaken, but it did work for a short time.

pb,out.

 

i have removed knetworkmanager, and now am trying BigVs suggestion, and this is the result:

Code:

scubasteve@scubasteve-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
network-manager-gnome is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libopenexr2c2a libarts1c2a kdelibs4c2a libartsc0 kdelibs-data liblualib50
  libavahi-qt3-1 libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libqt3-mt liblua50
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.

is this my regular network app? (system>admin>networking)

thanks

 

No, it's not. Try running:

Code:

nm-applet

and if that gets you your tray icon, add that command to your startup entries.

 

the startup stuff is under System>Preferences>Sessions, then the Startup tab.

 

well i typed that into my terminal, and it gets me a blinking box..nothing more. i let it go for about 10 minutes, and nothing happened. i added it to startup, and still nothing has happened. (how do i remove items from startup..or can i just disable them?)

thanks.