Re: Greyed-out "Wired/Wireless Networks" entries in NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 12:45 -0700, Kenneth Crudup wrote:
> After having numerous issues with NM 0.6.6 that shipped with the Ubuntu
> 8.0.4 pre-release I'm running, I've grabbed the latest NM and nm-applet
> from SVN. However, while I can add wired and wireless networks via
> "Edit Networks", all the "network" entries when left-clicking on nm-applet
> are grayed out and I can't connect to anything. I'm running the absolute
> latest SVN (BTW, thanks for fixing that segfault from Tuesday, Dan!) and
> running nm-applet and NetworkManager with --no-daemon don't turn up
> anything much after startup, except quite a few of these:
> 
> ----
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
> NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon...
> ---
> 
> A couple of questions:
> 
> - Should an "autogen"/"make"/"make" install on the various apps listed
>   on the dev page (gnome-common/NM/nm-applet) be all that's necessary?
>   I don't see where "NetworkManagerDispatcher" is being built, and I'm
>   using the one from 0.6.6, which can't be right

The dispatcher went away and got replaced by a dbus activated callout in
callouts/nm-dispatcher-action.c.  It's run on-demand and no longer an
always-running system service.

> - I had to make the change in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf to
>   change the policy from "at_console" to "group=netdev" as I'd read on
>   this list's archives. Is there anything else I'd need to do?

You'll need to make this change to anything that has "at_console" in it,
including /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf , otherwise the
applet can't talk to NM.  If you haven't done this, it's probably the
reason for the disabled applet stuff.

dan