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solatic

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Registered: 2011-04-10

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[SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

Installed Arch for the first time yesterday, so I put GNOME 2 on it first to make sure everything worked before moving onto the unstable stuff. Installed GNOME 3, installed Gnome Shell, bootup, everything seems perfect, except that I have no Network Manager. No applet in the top-right corner. Clicking on the Network application under activities did nothing and neither did trying to access it from System Settings. I did a little Googling, figured that I needed to actually install networkmanager and network-manager-applet. So I did so from pacman:

pacman -S networkmanager network-manager-applet

and now I can get into the application but I'm getting an error, "The system network services are not compatible with this version," which gives me a minimal-use window with a network proxy entry and the ability to add a VPN entry.

I know my WiFi works (Intel Wireless-N 1000) because it shows up as wlan0 in iwconfig and I can connect to an unsecured network with wicd. Anyone know how I can get Gnome's Network Manager back?

Last edited by solatic (2011-04-10 20:49:41)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

start networkmanager

i did compiled support for networkmanager in gnome-shell and gnome-control-center but i made it optionally.

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solatic

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Registered: 2011-04-10

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

OK, so I'm not sure what you're recommending here... just typing into terminal
$ networkmanager
doesn't do anything since bash doesn't recognize it. If it's optional (i.e. that I had to have pacman grab it manually), that doesn't explain why it doesn't pick up any of my NIC's and why the applet doesn't show up in the upper-right hand part of the screen.

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

networkmanager is a daemon therefor it needs to be started in rc.conf/DAEMONS.

/etc/rc.d/networkmanager start

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … it_daemons

really, if you are not used to networkmanager, you are NOT obligated to use it

Last edited by wonder (2011-04-10 19:58:40)

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solatic

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Registered: 2011-04-10

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

ah, the stupid daemon. Of course. /knockheadonwood. Might be good to link that kind of stuff to the GNOME 3 wiki entry.

Thanks for your time!

Last edited by solatic (2011-04-10 20:51:12)

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

ah, the stupid daemon. Of course. /knockheadonwood. Might be good to link that kind of stuff to the GNOME 3 wiki entry.

Thanks for your time!

Um, did Wonder help you solve the problem ?  If so, please add [SOLVED] to the thread title by editing the original post.
As to the wiki links, feel free

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iTheKronic

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Registered: 2011-04-12

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

Had the same problem, this solved it for me!!
Thanks guys, really digging the Arch community.

kaipee

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From: Belfast, UK

Registered: 2012-07-07

Posts: 214

Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

Would it be bad of me to re-open with the same issue using systemd? Should I create a new thread about the same issue except in a systemd setup?

vagvaz

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From: Chania

Registered: 2011-10-03

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

have you checked the wiki for systemd?
you probably have to enable NetworkManager with

 systemctl enable NetworkManager.service 

somverx

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Registered: 2014-03-16

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

Thank you, I had the same problem, but i can solved, i execute:
# systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
# ./etc/rc.d/network start
and it works.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

This thread is 3 years old and nobody posted here for 1.5 years - why "resurect it"?
Are you sure about

# ./etc/rc.d/network start

That's not how we start it using systemd.
No package provides /etc/rc.d/network.
Is that dot before the first slash in the path a typo?

Are you using an up to date Arch Linux?

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED][GNOME 3] After install - no Network Manager?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … Bumping.27

Closing

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