Hi everybody, I just wanted to describe a problem that I encountered and (apparently) solved; I’ve been using openSUSE 11.4 for a while, trying several desktop environments. Today I decided to try out Gnome 3, after installing with the one-click install 32 bit and rebooting, I noticed that no wireless networks were available in the network menu in the upper right corner of the screen. In the same menu, selecting Network Settings would result in an error message saying that “The system network services are not compatible with this version”.
I solved the problem by killing NetworkManager and restarting it as root:
dario@myricae:~> su
Password:
myricae:/home/dario # NetworkManager
NetworkManager is already running (pid 13459)
myricae:/home/dario # kill -9 13459
myricae:/home/dario # NetworkManager
After these commands, all wireless networks were available in the menu again. However, initially, clicking on any of them would not produce any result; I had to choose Network Settings -> Wireless and choose the network name from the dropdown list to the right in order to finally see the WPA prompt. However, now everything is working fine and if I directly click on a network on the menu I am immediately prompted for WPA, and I don’t need to navigate through Network Settings -> Wireless.
I could not find any other account of this exact behavior and solution, so that’s why I’m posting it. I would be glad if anyone could explain me what was wrong and why that simple sequence of commands solved it. Thanks
On 08/27/2011 02:56 AM, damix911 wrote:
>
> Hi everybody, I just wanted to describe a problem that I encountered and
> (apparently) solved; I’ve been using openSUSE 11.4 for a while, trying
> several desktop environments. Today I decided to try out Gnome 3, after
> installing with the one-click install 32 bit and rebooting, I noticed
> that no wireless networks were available in the network menu in the
> upper right corner of the screen. In the same menu, selecting Network
> Settings would result in an error message saying that “The system
> network services are not compatible with this version”.
>
> I solved the problem by killing NetworkManager and restarting it as
> root:
>
> dario@myricae:~> su
> Password:
> myricae:/home/dario # NetworkManager
> NetworkManager is already running (pid 13459)
> myricae:/home/dario # kill -9 13459
> myricae:/home/dario # NetworkManager
>
> After these commands, all wireless networks were available in the menu
> again. However, initially, clicking on any of them would not produce any
> result; I had to choose Network Settings -> Wireless and choose the
> network name from the dropdown list to the right in order to finally see
> the WPA prompt. However, now everything is working fine and if I
> directly click on a network on the menu I am immediately prompted for
> WPA, and I don’t need to navigate through Network Settings -> Wireless.
>
> I could not find any other account of this exact behavior and solution,
> so that’s why I’m posting it. I would be glad if anyone could explain me
> what was wrong and why that simple sequence of commands solved it.
> Thanks
NM was updated when you installed Gnome3, but the old one was still running. A
reboot should have accomplished the same result. Sometimes the “Windows solution
to everything” works.
I have a similar problem that I haven’t solved yet http://dl.dropbox.com/u/38105514/networkmanager.png. as you can the WIFI is up, but networkmanager doesn’t recognize it. I’m not even able to set the network manually. so my questions are: What can I do to solve it? Where Can I go to see what’s wrong??
