Nio:
I just ran the live CD on my primary system, and saw that when it
finishes initializing, there is no network applet in the task-bar, even
though there was a working ethernet cable connection. The lack of that
applet is probably what causes the problem.
I think my problem, was that instead of selecting (from the task-bar
menu) "Preferences", and "Network Connections" (which does have
something for configuring a wireless network), I selected "System Tools"
and "Network", which yields a dialog that does not appear to be useful
in any way for configuring a wireless network.
I will try selecting "Preferences", and "Network Connections" on my HP
Mini, and see if that lets me configure a wireless network, and then
report back.
For my software application (my main focus), I will not recommend that
my users use a command-line interface, unless there is absolutely no
other way of doing it. If that is the only way of using Lubuntu, I will
not recommend that they use Lubuntu (though they are free to use it on
their own).
- Aere
On 05/08/2014 10:49 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
2014-05-08 18:31, Aere Greenway skrev:
On 05/08/2014 03:47 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
When you started nm-applet (and it wouldn't work), did you run it with
or without gksudo? Try with gksudo, if it you didn't.
Nio:
I would tell you precisely, but I can only reproduce the problem by
running the live CD or live USB, and on those (test) systems, I don't
have access to my e-mail when I do that.
I did not use a command-line interface to access it (I avoid that if at
all possible).
I right-clicked on the panel (in an area without any icon, and chose
"Add/Remove Panel Items" from the pop-up menu.
I then clicked the "Add" button of the "Panel Preferences" window that
appeared (with the "Panel Applets" tab selected). I don't normally have
to do this, because the network (or wireless) icon is already in the
panel when the live CD (or USB) finishes booting.
I then selected "Manage Networks" from the list of available plugins,
and clicked the "Add" button.
I then selected "Network Status Monitor" from the list of available
plugins, and clicked the "Add" button.
Then I fumbled around with those additional applets, right or left
clicking on them, and in one combination, I actually got a list of
wireless networks, of which I selected my network, and tried to connect
to it (by clicking on it?).
A simple dialog appeared, asking me to enter the "Encryption key" in a
text box, which I carefully typed in (because I can't see what I'm
typing), and hit the enter-key (or clicked the button to process the
information).
Nothing appeared to happen. There was no error message, but the network
did not connect, and the icon didn't change in any way indicating it was
trying to connect.
With that not working, I specified "System Tools" (or maybe it was
"Preferences") from the task-bar menu, and then selected "Network
Connections" (or something like that).
That yielded a simple dialog with 3 tabs, and nothing like what I've
used in the past to configure a wireless network. In that simple
dialog, I did not discover anything that would let me configure a
wireless network.
Hi again Aere,
It works for me with
gksudo nm-applet &
from a terminal window in Lubuntu 14.04 LTS. This is 'a tweak' included
in the OBI tarball described here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172971&p=13016768#post13016768
Best regards
Nio
--
Sincerely,
Aere
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