Help with networkmanager-gnome

[Bikehead]

Just to be clear.  I have wireless access.  It the networkmanager-gnome 
applet and it's companion NetworkManager service that doesn't seem to be 
working. The NetworkManger service is different than the "networking" 
service.

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 _-\<,_   Brian
(_)/ (_)  bikehead at amberpoint.com  x503



Bob Herrmann wrote:

>
> 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?
>>
>