After Update no Network Manager

[Alpine CH]

Hi There,

This morning I was asked to update my Debian Lenny. It installed a newer version of ndiswrapper and nm-applet. After this, all was fine except that the applet disappeared. Now when I run the command to start it, the CLI gives: command not found (before the update it started the applet). Locate finds it:

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-applet.conf
/etc/xdg/autostart/nm-applet.desktop
/usr/bin/nm-applet
/usr/share/man/man1/nm-applet.1.gz
/usr/share/nm-applet
/usr/share/nm-applet/applet.glade
/usr/share/nm-applet/keyring.png

How do I get the nm-applett back?
Thanks,
Cheers,
Bart

PS I'd be happy to provide any log, but I have no clue which one is most useful.

[Stween]

I'm getting the same. nm-applet apparently belongs to the package network-manager-gnome, which doesn't appear to exist in lenny (testing) at the moment, though it appears in both stable and unstable.

Slightly annoying. I assume it'll reappear in some way soon and that it's a minor issue, but for the time being I've asked over at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=99432#99432

Cheers,
-S.

[Alpine CH]

HI Stween,

Thanks for your reply. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
I hope it is not an issue, as the program normally asks me for the WPA key when I go wireless back home. I haven't been able to check whether it connects to my router but I seriously hope it does....

Keep me/us posted whether there are replies on the oter website.
Thanks,
Cheers,
Bart

[Stween]

HI Stween,

Thanks for your reply. Glad to hear I'm not the only one.
I hope it is not an issue, as the program normally asks me for the WPA key when I go wireless back home. I haven't been able to check whether it connects to my router but I seriously hope it does....

Keep me/us posted whether there are replies on the oter website.
Thanks,
Cheers,
Bart
There's a good bit of useful information in that thread now. Probably the best fix, aside from using the KDE equivalent, is to pull the Gnome version from sid.

Best of luck,
-S.

[Alpine CH]

Hi Stween,

Thanks for the info and solution.
I'd be interested in getting the GNOME from sid, but how do I edit the sources.list that it first takes Lenny and then sid? How do I set up this preference file that pins to Lenny before it takes sid?

Cheers,
Bart

[loopback48]

I've seen notices prompt me to update even though no notifier is on the taskbar. So I'd wait until this problem is resolved.

But I wouldn't go so far as getting Sid's Gnome.

[Alpine CH]

I'd do the same if it wasn't for my wireless that is down due to the failing nm-applet. Therefore I was considering using Sid's GNOME.

Right now I only have wired connection. Hope they fix it soon.

Cheers,
Bart

PS Hey, I just passed the 100....:)

[Stween]

But I wouldn't go so far as getting Sid's Gnome.
I only grabbed the network-manager-gnome from Sid. The rest is still from Lenny.