On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:52 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net>wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:17:48 -0700
> Bill Barry <bar...@proaxis.com> dijo:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:53 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net
> >wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:05:01 -0700
> > > Bill Barry <bar...@proaxis.com> dijo:
> > >
> > > > > This is not the first time I have tried to figure out how to launch
> an
> > > > > app from the command line. Maybe there is a command I can use to
> find
> > > > > the launch term for all installed packages? Or hopefully can be
> used
> > > > > with grep or something in order to get just the one I want?
> > >
> > > > dpkg -L network-manager
> > > > will tell you which files the package installed
> > > > That's a capital L.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, it lists about 50 files. :(
> > >
> > > Scanning the list I saw "/etc/init.d/NetworkManager" which looked
> > > promising. But that got me:
> > >
> > > j...@devil7:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager
> > > [sudo] password for jjj:
> > > Usage: /etc/init.d/NetworkManager {start|stop|restart|force-reload}
> > >
> > > I think I need to find out what launches the GUI.
> >
> > > It used to be that the GUI launcher was in System > Administration >
> > > Network. My "Network" launch item is missing. If someone who has
> > > "Network" listed there can open the menu editor and right click on the
> > > item, it will say what the command to launch it is.
>
> > Until someone can answer that question directly, what happens when you
> > finish the above thought.
> > sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart
>
> j...@devil7:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart
> [sudo] password for jjj:
> * Stopping
> NetworkManager...
> [ OK ]
> * Starting NetworkManager...
>
> And that is all that happens. No GUI.
>
> The reason I need the GUI is to be able to find wireless networks when
> I am away from home, select one, and connect to it. It is far faster to
> do so from the GUI (assuming I can get it to work) than from the
> command line. Furthermore, I am soon going to upgrade to Jaunty, and in
> Jaunty the GUI works much better. I know that from trying the live CD
> of the release candidate. But at the moment I am not sure that the GUI
> package is even installed.
Ok, so network-manager is working ok, you just don't have GUI access to it.
Perhaps one of these package will do?
network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend)
network-manager-kde - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager
or the Ubuntu variant of that.
Bill
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