Re: trouble with nm-applet

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On Jan 17, 2008 2:55 AM, Girish Kulkarni <girish hri res in> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using the Network Manager (with nm-applet) to connect to
> both wired and wireless networks in various versions of Ubuntu for
> about an year now. I successfully used nm-applet's version 0.6.5 on
> Ubuntu 7.10 for about three months when, one day in December, it
> suddenly stopped working. It will be very nice if someone on this list
> could help me get it back on track.
>
> The applet's behaviour was completely nomal before it stopped working.
> And I haven't been able to diagnose the problem. But now
>
> - I have connect to any networks manually.
> - The nm-applet in the taskbar always shows me connected (even if I am
> not!) and furthermore it refuses to show me the "Connection
> Information", whether or not I am connected to a network.
>
> What could be wrong? Does this have to do with the applet or is
> something wrong with the computer's networking?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Girish.
>
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It sounds like you modified the network settings in the Ubuntu
Wireless dialog.   Go to the Networking applet in Administration and
set all your  NIC's to Roaming mode and reboot.