SSDD - Network-Manager-Applet never works for me...

So I've discovered the wonders of E17 and everything works wine, apart from a few minor bugs of course, but nothing to do with networking.
Just to be sure I've been following the instructions on the wiki, but though it would seen that nm-apples is actually started, it does not show up in the taskbar, which kinda defeats the purpose.
I should mention of course that to the best of my abilities I've checked and rechecked that there's nothing wrong with my network interfaces. After much meddling about I even succeeded in compiling connman, which seem to work, only my wireless is disable in the process and I can't seem to enable it.
When I log out and try a: "ip link set wlan0 up" and all I get is this:
RTNETLINK answers: operation not possible due to RF-kill
which of course is of no help at all.
I don't know where else to go from here, apart from one of those Linus distributions where the wireless is more or less the only thing that works.
I don't really know what I'm asking for, but I'm out of ideas and certainly out of my mind to go trough this every single time and either ending up creating the connection manually every time it's needed, or something else than Arch.
Mind you I'm not saying that this is anyone's fault but my own, only I can not see how it can be my own. I've tried just about everything, including praying to various gods.!
Well, enough ranting. If anyone have any suggestion, they are certainly welcome.
Best regards.
edit:
I should be sure to mention that the rf-kill issue is not a hardware switch issue. The issue does not exists using networkmanager.
Last edited by zacariaz (2012-08-23 16:49:34)

I've had similar issues in the UK with my ATV. I am able to stream photos and music from any of the other devices around the house, via wi-fi to it, but movies have been hit and miss. We have had 3 that have stopped during playback, telling us it will be another 1 1/2 hrs before it has loaded. We have ended up trying the following:
Resetting the ATV
Restoring it to factory settings
Trying different wi-fi channels
Using Ethernet (it's about a foot away)
Downloading movies way in advance of watching them
Our wi-fi signal is full strength with an average rate of 9.8MB and I don't have issues with drop-outs or impaired performance on any other device as far as I know. I've had to resume movies by renting them again on our Virgin Media service and get refunds from the iTunes store...
It's been really frustrating, but speaking to experts in my local Apple store and finally, Applecare, it appears that I may have a rogue unit. I'm sending it back for them to check as it is still under warranty.
Maybe you have similar?

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[SOLVED]Network Manager Applet and nmcli failing after GCC upgrade

Hi All,
So I went to update my system today and there were only like 8 or 9 updates. Like many other people I had an issue with gcc and pacman. To fix this I ran
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Hi guz46
I have already tried removing the ! and the same thing happened ... but I realised today that I was being automatically connected to "Auto eth0" despite there being no cable present. When automatic connection was disabled on "Auto eth0" my 3G connection (ppp0) connected fine.
Could you clarify that the preferred set-up in the /etc/rc.conf for the interfaces is without the !. The Wiki for networkmanager says to disable them, but then states that some may need to be reenabled with no explanation. The purpose of this confuses me!
Thanks for you help anyways,
Scott
EDIT:
I appear to have fixed my problem with the auto connection on the various interfaces by updating my /etc/rc.conf file to:
#Static IP example
#eth0="dhcp"
ppp0="dhcp"
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Last edited by ScottArch (2009-11-03 18:48:47)

[SOLVED] Network Manager Applet

One of the things I got used to from Ubuntu is the network manager applet, which allows managing connections with ease. As instructed in the Wiki, I tried installing it with the following commands:
pacman -S networkmanager
pacman -S network-manager-applet
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nm-applet
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Last edited by faviouz (2011-09-15 15:52:50)

faviouz wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply dodo3773!
It worked excellently! I also added networkmanager to the daemons array and it loads on boot now, which is great.
No problem. Glad to help. As karol said the wiki has many tips and tricks for almost anything that you need to get your system up and running. Make sure to read through the rest of the networkmanager one in regards to gnome-keyring, groups, etc.. Take care and welcome to Arch Linux Forums.

Network Manager applet won't show up on my desktop

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Network-manager-applet/hal upgrade.

Is anybody else having issues after the latest upgrade from gnome-network-manager to network-manager-applet?
After the upgrade + reboot, the networkmanager icon doesn't appear at start up, and the hal upgrade appears to have done something as well as my Windows partition no longer is mounted, my external drive isn't recognized, and Shutdown and Reboot do not appear on the Shutdown... menu
Running x86_64

proxima_centauri wrote:I already tryed downgrading both hal and back to gnome-network-manger.
I still have no networkmanger icon at start up, but internet still is functional.
My NTFS partition now shows after going back to old hal, but my external drive still isn't recognized, can't manually mount because there is no /dev/sdb showing up.
the network icon problem: have you installed network-manager-applet?
the hal problem: try modify /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf as root
add the following between <config version="0.1"> and </config>
<match user="$USER">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
</match>
where $USER is your username. restart hal.
and then modify /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi as root
find the following and modify it. the two lines with <merge key> is what added.

<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">gid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">umask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">dmask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">fmask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">utf8</append>
</match>
the original post is at http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/thread344125.html. it's in chinese.
hope this works.

Network-manager-applet cannot run!!!!!!!!!!

Installed networkmanager and network-manager-applet, but I found it could not startup at boot time.....
When I run nm-applet in terminal as normal user, it print:
[yin@q ~]$ nm-applet
** (nm-applet:2168): WARNING **: <WARN> request_name(): Could not acquire the NetworkManagerUserSettings service.
Error: (9) Connection ":1.39" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerUserSettings" due to security policies in the configuration file
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Another question:
What's the difference between daemons in rc.conf and startup applications in gnome ?
I add "networknamager" in daemons line in rc.conf ,but I found there is a network manager entry in startup applications in gnome with the command : nm-applet --sm-disable. Does they conflict ??
Last edited by iamybj (2010-03-27 12:52:56)

iamybj wrote:
ngoonee wrote:You did not search the forums. Please do so before asking a question.
I think if the question was resolved, it should be updated to the wiki....
I find the wiki updating is very slow right now.
You misunderstand how this community works.
Users update the wiki, voluntarily. If you find a solution and feel its a common enough problem to post on the wiki, please do so.
Also, if you can't even bother to do a forum search or google search before asking questions, this may not be the right distro for you. Please read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FAQ … se_Arch.3F, especially the 'do-it-yourself' part.

[SOLVED] network-manager-applet not found

Hi, I'm quite noob here, and I'm trying to install network-manager-applet with no luck;
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# pacman -S network-manager-applet
and I got
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (1): network-manager-applet-0.8-1
Total Download Size: 1.01 MB
Total Installed Size: 4.35 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
:: Retrieving packages from extra...
error: failed retrieving file 'network-manager-applet-0.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from mi.mirror.garr.it : Not Found
error: failed retrieving file 'network-manager-applet-0.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz' from ftp.nluug.nl : Not Found
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warning: failed to retrieve some files from extra
error: failed to commit transaction (Not Found)
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pacman -U network-manager-applet-0.8-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
and the answer was
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
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what to do?
i cannot find in the repos the package mobile-broadband-provider-info
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Last edited by lsk (2010-03-10 10:15:21)

Update your system - "pacman -Syu". The clue is that the file you manually downloaded is different to the one pacman is trying to get.

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toni wrote:
Inxsible wrote:its not connected to any network ?
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No Network Manager Applet

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TheNeXus84 wrote:
I am using an Intel Centrino Advanced N6205 wireless card.
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[root@ArchLinux cj]# systemctl status NetworkManager
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Active: active (running) since Sun 2013-12-22 20:42:57 EST; 23s ago
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CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─645 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
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Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <warn> Connection disconnecte...)
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <warn> Connection disconnecte...)
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...g
Dec 22 20:43:13 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Dec 22 20:43:14 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...g
Dec 22 20:43:17 ArchLinux NetworkManager[645]: <info> (wlp5s0): supplicant i...d
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
UPDATE: I fixed the problem. I had to enable DHCPCD. sorry to be a bother to you all but thanks for the help and support.
EDIT: upon rebooting my previous problem has occurred again.
Make sure that you have done
systemctl enable NetworkManager
as well as
systemctl start NetworkManager
- also when you ran dhcpcd how did you do it? Your network interface is wlp5s0 so you need to have dhcp running for that interface -
systemctl start [email protected]
will start it if it is not started, and
systemctl enable [email protected]
will ensure it starts after booting up. However I never needed to start dhcpcd at all when using NetworkManager.
There are occasions when the relative timing of different services does not allow some services to start properly - and then occasionally you need to add in some items to the NetworkManager service file to tell it to wait until the network is up first, if there are delays in the network starting at boot time but that can be sorted out once the basic services are set to start at boot.
Last edited by mcloaked (2013-12-23 18:01:46)

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Thanks Dogg,
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much obliged,
Mick

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