Network manager is not present in tray bar after upgrading gnome 3

Hi all I tried to install suse 11.4 on the new gnome desktop 3. everything seems to work except the network manager. Is not present in the bar and I can not restore it. I tried to reinstall network manager but to no avail.
Does anyone know how I could solve this problem?
thank you very much

can you check if it the nm-applet is running?