Help with networkmanager-gnome
Bob Herrmann
bob at jadn.com
Mon Oct 11 16:48:45 UTC 2004
I have a dell laptop (Inspirion 9100) with the dell wireless card (1350)
and by using the ndiswrapper and the WinXP driver, I am able to access
the net - no problems. I also added the *wireless signal strength
monitor* applet to panel at it appears to be working just fine.
Cheers,
-bob
Bikehead wrote:
> I started down this road when I went to add the "wireless monitor"
> applet to my FC3 task bar on my Dell laptop. It added an applet that
> reports the network manager is not running. After some searching
> around on the web I found that I could start the NetworkManager
> service which I did. Now the applet complains that there are no
> devices available....
>
> So my questions are:
> 0. Is the network manager ready for prime-time? Why is the "wireless
> monitor" applet dependent on it when it can't recoginize my wireless
> card?
>
> 1. There doesn't seem to be a way to remove the applet. My normal
> method of right clicking to get the action menu where I can usually
> "remove applet" only shows the "network manager not running" dialog
>
> 2. What is the magic of configuring the network manager service?
>
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