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Network Manager

Network Manager aims for Network Connectivity which "Just Works". The computer should use the wired network connection when its plugged in, but automatically switch to a wireless connection when the user unplugs it and walks away from the desk. Likewise, when the user plugs the computer back in, the computer should switch back to the wired connection. The user should, most times, not even notice that their connection has has been managed for them; they should simply see uninterrupted network connectivity.

More information about Network Manager is available [http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager/ here] .

Network-Manager is beta software. You can find breezy packages [http://bootlab.org/~j/NetworkManager-breezy/ here].

Please note that Network-Manager is only installable on Breezy currently! Also make sure you read to the end of this howto. If you are not confident about compiling and stuff, please wait for a few days as network-manager will be in the Breezy repositories soon.

Installation

Binary Packages

To install the packages add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

#NetworkManager
deb http://bootlab.org/~j/NetworkManager-breezy/ ./
deb-src http://bootlab.org/~j/NetworkManager-breezy/ ./

Install NetworkManager and it's dependencies by

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install network-manager

Compile from source (for non x86 systems)

Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list:

#NetworkManager
deb-src http://bootlab.org/~j/NetworkManager-breezy/ ./

Install the NetworkManager source and dependencies by

sudo apt-get -b source network-manager

Then do the usual compile by

./configure
make
sudo make install 

Compile from cvs

Get build dependencies and check out networkmanager cvs code by

sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome login
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome co NetworkManager
./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
make
sudo make install

Note

Restarting dbus services

You must restart the dbus service for network manager to work properly.

sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

Launching at start

If the networkmanager service doesn't start automatically at start, you can bring it up with

sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager start

To make this change permanent

cd /etc/init.d
sudo update-rc.d NetworkManager defaults

You'll also need to add nm-applet to your startup of Desktop Environment/Window Manager

Gnome

Go to System -> Preferences -> Sessions In the Startup Programs tab, click Add type "nm-applet", click OK. log out of your gnome session, and log back in again.

Other Window Managers/Desktop Environments

add nm-applet to your startup

Issues

If nm-applet gives this error message

WARNING **: <WARNING>   (): nmwa_dbus_init() could not acquire its service.  dbus_bus_acquire_service() says: 'Connection ":1.26" is not allowed to own the service "org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerInfo" due to security policies in  the configuration file'

try launching nm-applet with

nm-applet --sm-disable


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