sound icon/network manager missing

[Mark]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:23 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mark <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry I can't be more specific - what I did was poke into every
>> setting that had anything to do with power, battery, etc.  I can only
>> tell you that there _is_ a configuration that works.  FTR, I installed
>> the standard Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop, so the Netbook was never even
>> a contender, I just went straight to GNOME.
>>
> So the desktop ubuntu is what you installed?
>
Yes, but I refer you to other comments on this thread that were
admittedly more specific and useful than my poor memory.

When I installed U10.10 on my laptop, it was my first foray into such
efforts with Ubuntu, so not knowing what I was doing made it extremely
simple for me - everything just worked....