nm-applet issue, and network manager in general

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 09:23:07AM -0400, Loic Duros wrote:
> I have upgraded my old gateway laptop to Lucid Lynx 10.04 (from 9.10), but
> I'm having a few issues with it while things were working well with 9.10 --
> 
> First, (I'm talking about this because it might be related to the second
> issue below) it seems the linux kernel 2.6.32.21 doesn't work. I'm getting a
> black screen when launching with it from Grub. I disabled it, and I'm now
> using the earlier version for launch.

Which version is the earlier version?

> The most annoying issue however is the fact that the nm-applet disappeared
> since the upgrade. Even with eth0 cable connection I cannot go online unless
> I run: sudo dhclient first.
> There is no nm-applet on the top right of the tray, and if I type, nm-applet
> --sm-disable as was recommended for similar issues, I get the following
> message:
> ** (nm-applet:4761): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a
> disconnect 0
> ** (nm-applet:4761): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a
> disconnect 0

I get these too (and scarier ones), but nm-applet works.

> Any idea what's going on?

Do you have the notification area applet in your panel?

Marius Gedminas
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