nm-applet not showing wireless interface anymore

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Hi,

The Wlan0 interface suddenly disappeared from nm-applet.

It might be linked to an issue I had with a dbus update, that erased the /etc/dbus-1/system.d directory.
I reinstalled dbus and network-manager, expecting that all necessary files are back.
Now I have :

# ls /etc/dbus-1/system.d 
ConsoleKit.conf      nm-dhcp-client.conf        nm-vpnc-service.conf
cups.conf	     nm-dispatcher.conf		org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf
hal.conf	     nm-novellvpn-service.conf	org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.conf
NetworkManager.conf  nm-openvpn-service.conf
nm-applet.conf	     nm-system-settings.conf

But still no luck. I have also tried to switch off and on using network-manager with Yast.

Any more idea please ?

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I don’t use nm-applet, but: have you tried deleting preexisting wireless interfaces in YaST>Network Devices>Network Settings (if any) and then Adding a wireless interface?

3

Thanks for your suggestion, I had tried it without success.

There is a screenshot of the issue :
http://www.phocean.net/pub/file.php?h=Radf99dec96cdc81a106934b03c078241

There used to be “wlan0” displayed in the wireless section.

4

Well, it is working back now !

I reinstalled a bunch of programs using Dbus, so that each package can put back its dbus config file.

Now indeed there are more files :

% ls /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
avahi-dbus.conf      nm-applet.conf             nm-vpnc-service.conf
bluetooth.conf       nm-dhcp-client.conf        org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf
ConsoleKit.conf      nm-dispatcher.conf         org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.conf
cups.conf            nm-novellvpn-service.conf  wpa_supplicant.conf
hal.conf             nm-openvpn-service.conf
NetworkManager.conf  nm-system-settings.conf

In that case, I guess that the wpa-supplicant file really made the difference. Or maybe the avahi one also.

By the way, if someone would be nice enough to post here his system.d directory content, it would allow me to check definitely that I did not forget any other service.

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avahi-dbus.conf
bluetooth.conf
ConsoleKit.conf
cups.conf
hal.conf
knetworkmanager.conf
NetworkManager.conf
nm-dhcp-client.conf
nm-dispatcher.conf
nm-system-settings.conf
org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.conf
powersave.conf
wpa_supplicant.conf

That’s for a SuSE 11.0 32-bit system, on a laptop.

6

Thanks again.
Powersave was missing. Now it should be alright.
I forgot to say that I am on Suse 11.0 64 bits.