On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:49 +0000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > The user-space program to run is nm-tool. This probably shows up > somewhere in the desktop menus, but I have no idea what it's called and > "$ find ~/.gnome2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep nm-tool" isn't helpful > on that front. Let me know if you find it. > > So far so good. Now, does anyone know anything about this problem? > > $ nm-tool > > NetworkManager Tool > > State: disconnected > > print_devices(): didn't get a reply from NetworkManager. > There are no available network devices. > > I do in fact have some network devices! > > $ ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [elided] > inet addr:[elided] Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > [etc] > > eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [elided] > [etc]
I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that *weren'* otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you commented out the eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
