Ticket #357 (closed defect: fixed)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 1 year ago

networkmanager applet but no wireless or DHCP

Reported by: parkland99@hotmail.com Assigned to: free
Priority: normal Milestone: 2.1
Component: build Version: 2.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
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Description

Fresh install 2.0pre1 master 13-jul-07

My PC has no wireless network.

The fresh install of 64studio is automatically starting networkapplet, but this application is not required for me.

The applet gives misleading information "no network available"

There is no obvious method to deactivate the applet. It is not in the list of services and cannot be removed from the panel.

Change History

(in reply to: ↑ description ; follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 07/14/07 17:30:28 changed by parkland99@hotmail.com

Also, desktop/administration/network dialog seems to be tailored to a wireless PC.

For instance there is an "enable roaming mode" option, but no option to activate or deactivate the eth device.

Has my PC somehow been detected as a wireless laptop during setup?

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 07/21/07 20:11:33 changed by parkland99@hotmail.com

Has my PC somehow been detected as a wireless laptop during setup?

Free, is this related to http://trac.64studio.com/64studio/ticket/291 ?

(follow-up: ↓ 4 ) 07/27/07 11:27:21 changed by daniel@64studio.com

Try right-clicking on the taskbar icon and unchecking 'Enable Networking', if you have that checkbox visible. The Network Manager applet can manage wired connections, but only if a DHCP server is available. If you have no DHCP and use a static IP, you're better off removing this applet using:

apt-get remove network-manager network-manager-gnome

or Synaptic.

(in reply to: ↑ 3 ) 07/27/07 12:02:57 changed by parkland99@hotmail.com

Replying to daniel@64studio.com:

but only if a DHCP server is available.

didn't realise that DHCP was a pre-req for the network applet. That explains why this icon is not doing much for me.

Maybe I should just setup DHCP on the router :)

S~

07/27/07 12:10:39 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • milestone changed from 2.0 to 3.0.

08/13/07 14:12:02 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • summary changed from networkmanager applet but no wireless to networkmanager applet but no wireless or DHCP.
  • version changed from 1.4.0 to 2.0.
  • milestone changed from 3.0 to 2.1.

08/28/07 14:43:09 changed by daniel@64studio.com

If we put the packages network-manager-gnome, network-manager and gnome-power-manager in the laptop task, rather than the desktop task, it should solve this problem.

09/21/07 19:01:57 changed by free

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

(In [259]) * Moved network-manager, network-manager-gnome and

gnome-power-manager to the laptop task (closes #357)