Not seeing wireless network in nm-applet

[Wendell MacKenzie <mackendw sympatico ca>]

Hi:

  Installed NetworkManager-0.5.1 from tar archive on gnome.org on SUSE 
10.0 on a Dell laptop.  I also installed the
required dhcdbd-1.10 package it needs.  I then rebooted the laptop. 

  The network manager daemon starts up OK.  Here are the messages that 
it dumps into the syslog:

NetworkManager: <information>   starting...
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.866182]  (): found config 
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-00:0f:1f:16:d1:bf for if eth0
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.866767]  (): BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.867055]  (): ------ Config 
(eth0)
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.867297]  (): dhcp=1
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.953045]  (): addr=0.0.0.0
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.953376]  (): gw=0.0.0.0
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.953699]  (): mask=0.0.0.0
NetworkManager: <debug info>    [1133736101.953947]  (): 
---------------------

NetworkManager: <information>   eth0: Device is fully-supported using 
driver 'tg3'.
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_new(): waiting for device's 
worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information>   nm_device_new(): device's worker thread 
started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information>   Now managing wired device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <information>   Deactivating device eth0.
NetworkManager: <information>   Updating allowed wireless network lists.


  I can successfully connect to my home linksys router (WEP or 
otherwise) using iwconfig and ifconfig manually, so I know the network
is OK. 

  For whatever reason, when I click on the network icon that nm-applet 
puts on the gnone task bar, all it says is Wired Network (greyed out)
when I'm just running wirelessly.  I have a ifcfg-wlan0 setup in my 
/etc/sysconfig/network directory with valid values for the wireless 
connection
to my wireless router.

  Any ideas on what I'm missing?

Thx.
Wendell MacKenzie