[Novalug] Network Manager ( is it all there ?)

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Tue Dec 27 07:29:13 EST 2016


Your right corner is an icon you click on to enable r the connection and
pick the wifi. It depends on the version as to how the app looks. I am
assuming gnome and a recent distribution

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016, 12:02 AM Walt Smith <waltechmail@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> You're right.
>
> What I have is a config screen when clicked icon..
> I'm missing the functional part.
>
> Both * were * available from one icon which was 2 terminals
> one slightly behind the other.  Some somehow the update
> clobbered something ( like another 2 applets ).
>
> It's labeled with mouseover:
>
> Network Connects
> Manage and change your network settings.
>
> So then the Q is how do I get the other part working again ?
>
> thx,
> Walt.................
>
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> On Mon, 12/26/16, greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [Novalug] Network Manager ( is it all there ?)
>  To: "Walt Smith" <waltechmail@yahoo.com>, "novalug" <
> novalug@firemountain.net>
>  Date: Monday, December 26, 2016, 9:19 PM
>
>  Without
>  screenshots, it is a guess. There is an icon in the upper
>  right that is where NetworkManager selects the
>  Wireless/Wired/VPN/etc.
>  The screen you are referring to,
>  sounds like the config screen.
>  So config vs add.
>  (From the internet as to lazy to go
>  to Linux box to grab images)PICKhttp://
> i1-linux.softpedia-static.com/screenshots/NetworkManager_1.png
>
>  CONFIGhttp://
> 4.bp.blogspot.com/-NK675YRGZiU/UENC3Qo332I/AAAAAAAAAl8/4pa6IwqfG_A/s1600/network_manager_gonem_linux.png
>
>
>  On Mon, Dec 26,
>  2016 at 5:55 PM Walt Smith via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net>
>  wrote:
>
>
>  hi,
>
>
>
>  after a yum update,  I have a icon and menu item to
>
>  start Network Manager but it looks/acts differently.
>
>
>
>  It starts with the window to select or add a connections.
>
>  It has wired and wireless listings.
>
>  But has no  way to "enable" or disable
>  connections.
>
>  There is no longer any way to select to
>
>  connect, or even radio survey:   There is only a selection
>  to
>
>  add, delete or edit a previous list that was there.
>
>
>
>  A way to fix it would be very helpful....
>
>
>
>  NOTE:  I updated it as part of an incremental update
>
>  not a month or 2 ago, it didn't change, and this
>  update
>
>  should have been be very minor.  It wasn't.
>
>
>
>  note:
>
>  Plugging in a USB connector using a Smartphone
>
>  as a router worked OK. So do several peripherals
>
>  out on a eth0 192.168.1.x   And ppp, more or less still
>
>  works.
>
>
>
>
>
>  thx,
>
>
>
>  Walt....................
>
>
>
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>
>   The government is lawless, not the press (people).
>
>   ( [Supreme Court] Justice Douglas re: The Pentagon Papers
>  )
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