KNetworkmanager says "no active device"

Question

I followed the wiki guide for Networkmanager with KDE.
When I open Knetworkmanager,  everything is grayed out and it states "no active device".
Here is my rc.conf info:
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
ath0="dhcp"
#eth0="eth0 192.168.1.17 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0 !ath0)
My ath0 is disabled with a !, as per the wiki.
also my DAEMONS line is in the order specified in the wiki entry:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network dbus hal netfs acpid alsa cpufreq dhcdbd networkmanager fam)
Network daemon is disabled, per the wiki.
Here is my /etc/conf.d/wireless:
# For each wireless interface declared in INTERFACES (in rc.conf), declare
# a wlan_${IF} variable that contains the arguments to be passed to
# iwconfig(8). Then list the original interface name in the
# WLAN_INTERFACES array.
#wlan_eth0="eth0 mode managed essid default"
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)
This is a Thinkpad T23 with D-Link DWL650 atheros cardbus adapter, mad_wifi driver. I am currently using wifi-radar, which was easy to get up and running, but I would like the extra features of networkmanager. Laptop will roam from one wifi hotspot to the next.
Any help appreciated.
Last edited by Misfit138 (2007-10-18 22:05:15)

Answer 1

I think I found the answer. I had the exact same error. Installed knetworkmanager via "yaourt -S knetworkmanager" which downloaded the PKGBUILD and built it for me as well as installed it.
Then I receieved the message "no active device".
I then proceeded to edit /etc/group as root and added my normal username to the "network" line like this:
network:x:90:tinuva
Restarted my laptop and logged into kdemod 4.1 and wala the icon started up eth0 with dhcp for me.
Now I guess the correct way of doing this would be:
gpasswd -a USERNAME network
Last edited by Tinuva (2008-11-11 11:01:20)