Fedora 8 and knetworkmanager

dezgot · #1 9th November 2007, 04:48 AM

I use KDE and just installed Fedora 8. I installed Fedora with KDE installed but not Gnome, yet nm-applet in all its ugliness appears in my tray, and launching knetworkmanager does NOT launch knetworkmanager, but nm-applet.

I do not want to use nm-applet. I tried to uninstall it with yum but it apparently depends on knetworkmanager, so that doesn't get me anywhere.

Is there a way to get rid of nm-applet and use knetworkmanager?

RahulSundaram · #2 9th November 2007, 06:05 AM

Hi,

Not yet. Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/Desktop

"Since knetworkmanager does not work with the version of NetworkManager available in this release, the KDE Live images use nm-applet from NetworkManager-gnome as a replacement. The gnome-keyring-daemon facility saves passwords for these encryption technologies. The knetworkmanager package in this release is a script that calls nm-applet. The knetworkmanager package will be updated to provide a KDE frontend when a compatible version is available."

gizmobay · #3 9th November 2007, 06:07 AM

I hope someone has an answer to this. My wlan0 was working great and I did a update on my F8 and it went to crap as I can no longer connect to my wifi network. I also think it has to do with nm-applet as for unknown reasons knetworkmanager says networkmanager-gnome is a dependency even though the LiveCD doesn't need it and nm-applet is a part of nm-gnome. Even when you start knm it just starts nm-applet for you and kills knm. Blah

I hope someone has a work around.

dezgot · #4 9th November 2007, 03:33 PM

Thanks, Rahul.

Sigh. Because of this and a couple other things I might go back to suse even though it kernel panics every 3rd boot... (nm-applet does not work properly with my school's WPA2 nework.)

RahulSundaram · #5 9th November 2007, 03:47 PM

Hi,

KNetworkManager might get a update soon enough when upstream has a new release. For any other problems, it would be helpful if you can post reports to http://bugzilla.redhat.com. If you decide to use other distributions, good luck and thanks for trying out Fedora.

gizmobay · #6 9th November 2007, 03:59 PM

I figured out my problem. I have a Myth box so I use ATrpms and I had testing repo enabled. At my last update, I downloaded the newer wpa_supplicant which doesn't work with the version of NM I had. I unchecked testing and downgraded wpa and all is working. I figured it out by looking at the log files.