On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:00 +0000, Eugéne Suter wrote: > Hi again, > > I've successfully built NetworkManager on VectorLinux 5.8 (slackware > 11 derivative), thanks to help from this mailing list. > Anyway, after installing the package I built, I ran "nm-applet" and > nothing happened.
There are two components, nm-applet, and NetworkManager. You must make sure that you have both running. Furthermore, the dbus bits have to be in order. Fedora uses pam_console to ensure that users physically at the laptop can talk to NetowrkManager; debian-based distributions use groups. I'm not sure how slackware does it. The problem is that you can't necessarily let _anyone_ change network settings on the fly, so NM locks it down to a subset of people. I'm not sure how slackware's dbus works in this regard. That's a general slackware/dbus issue, not related to NetworkManager. dan > So I opened a terminal, and ran nm-applet from there. > No errors occurred (or any other output for that matter) but I could > see the terminal was busy, since the prompt didn't re-appear. > > I'm using XFCE 4.4, and according to NetworkManager's homepage, the > applet should work in any mainstream environment, including XFCE. > Do I need to start a daemon or something? > What did I miss? > > Thanks in advance! > > Regards, > > Eugéne > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list