Re: Starting Network Manager?

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 10/18/06, Jeff Schallenberg <schallenberg jeff gmail com> wrote:
> NM occasionally refuses to run on startup with my Ubuntu box. The only way I
> can connect to a wireless access point is then to re-boot, and hope NM
> starts this time :-(
>
> So, two really newbie questions:
>
> 1. Is there a list of startup applications I can check?

System->Preferences-Sessions->Startup make sure nm-applet --sm-disable is listed

> 2. When NM is not started, how can I manually start it?

hit alt-f2 and type nm-applet --sm-disable


Though it is odd that NM isn't starting for you, if you look in syslog
do you see any errors?