how to restart knetworkmanager opensuse 11.1

[4joey1]

Hallo!I recently installed openSUSE 11.1 and configured it to use a Huawei E220 dial-up modem.

My dial-up is somewhat unstable and sometimes my network connection is lost.When this happens the,knetworkmanager becomes de-activated from the panel.When I try to restart it as soon as I know my network connection is back-up,the knetworkmanager refuses to start thus I am forced to restart my computer to reconnect.

Also,whenever I disconnect my modem from the USB port,the knetworkmanager becomes de-activated from the panel.When I plug in the modem back to my computer,knetworkmanager is still dactivated and I cannot start it forcing me to boot my machine to re-instate the connection.

How do I solve this problem?I have set my knetworkmanager to auto-connect.

[Akoellh]

su -c "/sbin/rcnetwork restart"

[4joey1]

Hallo!I unplugged my wireless modem from the USB port and the knetworkmanager icon in the panel.I re-plugged my modem and using the command as below

linux-luhe:/home/JOEY # su -c "/sbin/rcnetwork restart";

The following was the output

Shutting down the NetworkManager done
Shutting down network interfaces:
eth0 name: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX done
pan0
No configuration found for pan0
Nevertheless the interface will be shut down. done
wlan0 name: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN done
Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . done
Starting the NetworkManager done


Unfortunately,the knetworkmanager was not re-activated and I still cannot connect to the internet.How do I solve this problem?

[deano_ferrari]

After the network restart, you can start knetworkmanager from user console with

knetworkmanager

Thats how I do it when it falls over.

[4joey1]

I have tried using the commands below

linux-luhe:/home/JOEY # su -c "/sbin/rcnetwork restart"


linux-luhe:/home/JOEY # knetworkmanager

but still I am unable to activate knetworkmanager to reconnect to the internet.Please help me.

[Akoellh]

Do _NOT_ start knetworkmanager as root.

[Knurpht]

and not only that. It looks like you're having rootsessions in a terminal.....Read some posts about that, will save you a lot of misery somehere in the future

[deano_ferrari]

Do _NOT_ start knetworkmanager as root.

If you have a look at his post, he doesn't appear to be starting knetworkmanager as root. Looks like regular user to me. (As I explained to him).

[Akoellh]

Originally Posted by deano_ferrari

If you have a look at his post,

I did.

Originally Posted by deano_ferrari

he doesn't appear to be starting knetworkmanager as root.

He most certainly does.

Originally Posted by deano_ferrari

Looks like regular user to me. (As I explained to him).

Most certainly not.

linux-luhe:/home/JOEY # knetworkmanager

=> #

Looks like a command run by root in regular user's home to me.

[4joey1]

Hallo! I have tried to restart knetworkmanager without logging in as root as shown by the 2 commands below

JOEY@linux-luhe:~> su -c "/sbin/rcnetwork restart"


JOEY@linux-luhe:~> knetworkmanager


But I am still unable to reconnect to the internet.Please help me.