Bugzilla – Bug 526569
Network Settings is set to use NetworkManager but this service doesn't start.
Last modified: 2010-08-15 10:25:44 UTC
Created attachment 309135 [details] screenshot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090714 SUSE/3.5.1-1.1 Firefox/3.5.1 As you can see at the attached screenshot, knetworkmanager runs but NetworkManagere doesn't and device wlan0 is down. The picture shows state immediately after boot and login to KDE. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set Network Setup Method to "User Controlled with NetworkManager" 2. reboot and open KDE session 3. Actual Results: I must start NetworkManager manually as a root or set network configuration by command like ip, iwcofnig, dhcpcd Expected Results: Manage network setting only by knetworkmanager. Knetworkmanager should be notify NetworkManager doesn't work. KDE: 4.2.98 (KDE 4.2.98 (KDE 4.3 RC3)) "release 147" Linux 2.6.27.25-0.1-default #1 SMP 2009-07-01 15:37:09 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
The knetworkmanager UI needs a better indicator when NM is down, the icon is provisional though and will change. Reassigning to Network because it is more significant that NM doesn't start after changing network config.
If I understand this correctly, this is a duplicate of 619934. knetworkmanager now (openSUSE 11.3) indicates if the network is disabled, but it still does not allow the user to easily enable it. This is the issue of 619934. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 619934 ***