How have icon in system tray when using ifup for network?

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For some reason I could not get openSUSE 11.2 KDE to work with my wireless card when using KNetworkManager. It DOES work with YAST->ifup. However, now there’s no notification icon telling me it’s up or what my speed is and signal strength. How do I add that to that taskbar?

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6tr6tr <6tr6tr@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> For some reason I could not get openSUSE 11.2 KDE to work with my
> wireless card when using KNetworkManager. It DOES work with YAST->ifup.
> However, now there’s no notification icon telling me it’s up or what my
> speed is and signal strength. How do I add that to that taskbar?

That is Network Manager

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Regards,
Barry Nichols

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Yeah but if I use ifup, all the NetworkManager icon shows is the NM icon and it only says it’s been disabled.

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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:26 +0000, 6tr6tr wrote:
> For some reason I could not get openSUSE 11.2 KDE to work with my
> wireless card when using KNetworkManager. It DOES work with YAST->ifup.
> However, now there’s no notification icon telling me it’s up or what my
> speed is and signal strength. How do I add that to that taskbar?
>
>

knemo

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6tr6tr <6tr6tr@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:

> Barry_Nichols;2088455 Wrote:
>> 6tr6tr <6tr6tr@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> writes:
>>
>> > For some reason I could not get openSUSE 11.2 KDE to work with my
>> > wireless card when using KNetworkManager. It DOES work with
>> YAST->ifup.
>> > However, now there’s no notification icon telling me it’s up or what
>> my
>> > speed is and signal strength. How do I add that to that taskbar?
>>
>> That is Network Manager
>>
>> –
>> Regards,
>> Barry Nichols
>
> Yeah but if I use ifup, all the NetworkManager icon shows is the NM
> icon and it only says it’s been disabled.

Exactly, if you don’t use network manager, the network manager icon
won’t tell you anything; that was my point.

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Regards,
Barry Nichols

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But that’s not answering my question then. I said, since I use ifup and therefore the networkmanager icon doesn’t work, is there an icon for ifup that shows similar data. It doesn’t help to then tell me that the networkmanager icon shows that data only for networkmanager.

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Thanks. KNemo doesn’t show signal strength though, but it does show that it’s connected. :slight_smile: But is it an icon in the system tray?

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In order to make NetworkManager workin again try to update Kde from 4.3.1 to 4.3.4. I had the same situation - NM didn’t work and ifup worked. Update fixes NM (I hope on your PC too).
See KDE/Upgrade - openSUSE to get instructions on update.

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On 12/15/2009 08:36 PM, 6tr6tr wrote:
> But that’s not answering my question then. I said, since I use ifup and
> therefore the networkmanager icon doesn’t work, is there an icon for
> ifup that shows similar data. It doesn’t help to then tell me that the
> networkmanager icon shows that data only for networkmanager.

The applet icon is part of NetworkManager. If you do not use NM, no
applet. You decide what you want.

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Thanks, I’ll give that a try!

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You might try to solving your prob. by downloading and installing the “good old” <KInternet> (simply using YAST).

At least for me it worked perfectly (and in the way I was used to in earlier versions). I also had troubles with NetworkManager and therefore decided to switch back to KInternet.