I have net-misc/networkmanager-0.8-r1 installed with gnome desktop and networkmanager in USE flags.
USE="geoip startup-notification curl lame oss sdl wavpack esd cdda spell gcj sqlite sqlite3 gnutls zeroconf syslog mad mp3 gif ogg samba subversion ffmpeg libnotify gimp v4l2 v4l gphoto2 png tiff scanner vorbis win32codecs gnome-keyring mono 3dnow gstreamer wifi jpeg alsa mmx sse sse2 X gnome java nsplugin xinetd truetype unicode usb dbus cups acpi lm_sensors clamav gtk policykit svg opengl snmp cgi djvu networkmanager" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" profile is default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib Also networkmanager has been emerged with USE="connection-sharing dhcpcd gnutls nss resolvconf -avahi -bluetooth -dhclient -doc" The question is, why there is no applet appearing on the panel when I start networkmanager (/etc/init.d/NetworkManager start)? ps says it runs: root 2298 1 0 17:59 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager.pid