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Valheru

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Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 49

Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

The newest version of network manager breaks the applets - neither nm-applet nor knetworkmanager can connect via dbus. dhcdbd neither for that matter. What gives? I can' t diagnose it any further than that it is a dbus problem since I don' t know anything about dbus - comething which I am busy remedying now...

tom5760

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From: Philadelphia, PA, USA

Registered: 2006-02-05

Posts: 283

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Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

You have to add yourself to the "network" group.

gpasswd -a <USER> network

Valheru

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Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 49

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

It would be nice if the package maintainers would echo that from a .install file. It's pretty retarded that they forget to mention a change like that.

parkash

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Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 8

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

Ok wait, I added myself to the network group.. Yes, I can now "use" network manager.  But it doesn't find any wireless networks!  It doesn't even know (I presume) that I have a wireless card!

Any help will be appreciated.

ngch

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From: Singapore

Registered: 2007-03-17

Posts: 12

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

For now, I think it is best to downgrade networkmanager. Assuming you have not clean pacman's cache, you still can find the packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg.

tafsen

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Registered: 2006-05-03

Posts: 141

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

No progress here?

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

Works fine here. Using ndiswrapper, user in network group, dhcdbd networkmanager dbus amd hal in daemons, 2.6.20 stock arch kernel. Oh and wap authentication plus the keyring agent activated in gnome.

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Valheru

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Registered: 2005-02-06

Posts: 49

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

Ok wait, I added myself to the network group.. Yes, I can now "use" network manager.  But it doesn't find any wireless networks!  It doesn't even know (I presume) that I have a wireless card!

Any help will be appreciated.

Once I added myself to the network group everything worked fine.

What is the output of iwconfig? Does it list your wireless card? If not, then check if the module is loaded for your card. If you use nsidwrapper, check to see what ndiswrapper -l gives you. You'll have to give a little more info than what you gave. What card/chipset do you have for starters? Post the output of lspci.

parkash

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Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 8

Re: Upgrade to networkmanager breaks networkmanager applets

I don't know what I was doing wrong...  Today I finally updated network manager (I downgraded it before) and woa! It works...  But thanks for the help anyway.