networkmanagement applet doesn't works

opensuse 11.4 kde 4.7
when I try to put networkmanagement applet plasmoid on desktop or panel I have an error tha say:
“questo oggetto non puo’ essere creato per la seguente ragione: impossibile trovare il componente richiesto: org.kde.networkmanagement”
that in English should be something of this:
“this object cannot be created for the following reason: impossible to find the requested component: org.kde.networkmanagement”

reading around it seems to be a qdbus error, if on a running system where networkmanagement works I run

qdbus

I found among the others

:1.2
 org.freedesktop.PowerManagement
 org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit
 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement
 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.PolicyAgent
 org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
 org.kde.kded
 org.kde.keyboard
 org.kde.networkmanagement
:1.20

on the not working system I found

:1.2
 org.freedesktop.PowerManagement
 org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit
 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement
 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.PolicyAgent
 org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
 org.kde.kded
 org.kde.keyboard
:1.21

as you can see it lacks of org.kde.networkmanagement

how can I solve??

thanks pla

if it is useful I tried to do this:

pla@linux-4upm:~/Documenti> plasmoidviewer org.kde.networkmanagement
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken
plasmoidviewer: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_networkmanagement.so: undefined symbol: _ZN21RemoteActivatableList22connectionForInterfaceEPN5Solid7Control16NetworkInterfaceE
pla@linux-4upm:~/Documenti>

To use NetworkManager, it must be enabled in YaST / Network Devices / Network Settings / Global Options Tab / “User Controlled with Network Manager” Bullet must be set then select OK in the bottom right corner. Did you do this already? Also, NetworkManager is good when you have two or more networks like having wireless and wired on a laptop. If you only have a wired connection, I do not normally use NetworkManager, but the traditional method with ifup, as it is called.

Thank You,

Yes, it was already controlled by networkmanager

it is installed on my netbook, so I have more than one network, now with kde eth0 network connect automatically, networkmanager works, what don’t works is the network management plasmoid to switch among networks, in gnome everything works but I dont like gnome:-))

Do you have GNOME 3 installed? If so, it’s a known issue, caused by Networkmanager version conflicts. The workaround is to use nm-applet in KDE. That allows you to browse the networks.

I don’t know how to check but there isn’t any gnome 3 in packages, only 2.32 version

Please post output of


rpm -qa | grep workmanager

et voila :slight_smile:

pla@linux-4upm:~> rpm -qa | grep workmanager
libproxy1-networkmanager-0.4.6-3.9.1.i586
pla@linux-4upm:~>

Sorry, my typo, I meant:


rpm -qa | grep workManager

My point was to see all Networkmanager packages and their versions…

:slight_smile: ok

pla@linux-4upm:~> rpm -qa | grep workManager
NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome-0.8.2-6.1.i586
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-pptp-lang-0.8.2-4.1.noarch
NetworkManager-kde4-libs-0.9.svn1192577-7.2.i586
NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.24.1.i586
NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-openvpn-lang-0.8.2-6.1.noarch
NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.2-9.10.1.i586
NetworkManager-glib-0.8.2-15.24.1.i586
NetworkManager-pptp-gnome-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-vpnc-lang-0.8.2-4.1.noarch
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.2-6.1.i586
pla@linux-4upm:~> 

this is better, cantain also plasmoid, whic is the one that don’t works :slight_smile:

pla@linux-4upm:~> rpm -qa | grep -i networkmana
NetworkManager-openvpn-gnome-0.8.2-6.1.i586
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-pptp-lang-0.8.2-4.1.noarch
NetworkManager-kde4-libs-0.9.svn1192577-7.2.i586
NetworkManager-vpnc-gnome-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-0.8.2-15.24.1.i586
NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-openvpn-lang-0.8.2-6.1.noarch
NetworkManager-gnome-0.8.2-9.10.1.i586
NetworkManager-glib-0.8.2-15.24.1.i586
libproxy1-networkmanager-0.4.6-3.9.1.i586
NetworkManager-pptp-gnome-0.8.2-4.1.i586
NetworkManager-vpnc-lang-0.8.2-4.1.noarch
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.2-6.1.i586
plasmoid-networkmanagement-0.9.1git20110811-4.1.i586
pla@linux-4upm:~>