On the flatpot running Lenny, installed the Vodafone dongle using (if I remember the name corretly), Gdeb
Ran the files down in user/shared, but can find no way of putting a link up to the 'desktop' or anywhere sensible, like Applications/internet
Anyone have a pointer, please?
On 22 Feb 13:14, Anthony Anson wrote:
On the flatpot running Lenny, installed the Vodafone dongle using (if I remember the name corretly), Gdeb
Ran the files down in user/shared, but can find no way of putting a link up to the 'desktop' or anywhere sensible, like Applications/internet
Anyone have a pointer, please?
Install network-manager, use the network-manager applet. Done.
(Also, if we could have slightly more intelligable English so that the non-natives can read it, and so that it's more easily indexed for people with the same issue... that would be much appreciated.)
Basically, for 3G dongles, the easiest way to have an accessable from desktop way of bringing it up/putting it down is to use network manager and configure it in there. That's what we use on the netbooks that our engineers take on site because they can easily understand it.
Thanks,
On 22 Feb 15:49, Brett Parker wrote:
On 22 Feb 13:14, Anthony Anson wrote:
On the flatpot running Lenny, installed the Vodafone dongle using (if I remember the name corretly), Gdeb
Ran the files down in user/shared, but can find no way of putting a link up to the 'desktop' or anywhere sensible, like Applications/internet
Anyone have a pointer, please?
Install network-manager, use the network-manager applet. Done.
(Also, if we could have slightly more intelligable English so that the non-natives can read it, and so that it's more easily indexed for people with the same issue... that would be much appreciated.)
Basically, for 3G dongles, the easiest way to have an accessable from desktop way of bringing it up/putting it down is to use network manager and configure it in there. That's what we use on the netbooks that our engineers take on site because they can easily understand it.
Just for ease, the package in lenny is called network-manager. A simple apt-get install network-manager so be all you need.
Cheers,
Brett Parker wrote:
Just for ease, the package in lenny is called network-manager. A simple apt-get install network-manager so be all you need.
Found two network-manager files with Gnome Apt: both followed by 'Net' - does this indicate that network-manager is available, but only by downloading it?
Brett Parker wrote:
Just for ease, the package in lenny is called network-manager. A simple apt-get install network-manager so be all you need.
Thanks - I need some-other-manager to find network-manager. apt-get install network manager results in:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done network-manager is already the newest version. network-manager is set to manually installed. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and not upgraded.
followed by the prompt.
Search for files didn't turn it up, and AFAICS it's not to be found in Applications, Places or System
In a (root) terminal, open network-manager dumps me back on the root prompt
Had a quick furtle through Bash commands but found no inspiration.
Brett Parker wrote:
Basically, for 3G dongles, the easiest way to have an accessable from desktop way of bringing it up/putting it down is to use network manager and configure it in there. That's what we use on the netbooks that our engineers take on site because they can easily understand it.
Can't find anything called 'network manager', but I can find KNetworkManager (Open SuSE) and Network Tools (Debian). The latter is installed and AFAICS isn't any help.
KNetworkManager is available for installation from my Lenny CDs, if that is what you mean - or if it will do. I don't expect it'll refuse to play with Gnome...
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:34:03PM +0000, Anthony Anson wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Basically, for 3G dongles, the easiest way to have an accessable from desktop way of bringing it up/putting it down is to use network manager and configure it in there. That's what we use on the netbooks that our engineers take on site because they can easily understand it.
Can't find anything called 'network manager', but I can find KNetworkManager (Open SuSE) and Network Tools (Debian). The latter is installed and AFAICS isn't any help.
KNetworkManager is available for installation from my Lenny CDs, if that is what you mean - or if it will do. I don't expect it'll refuse to play with Gnome...
Look harder:
[noodles@the ~]$ apt-cache search network-manager gnome-main-menu - GNOME start menu applet libslab-dev - development file for libslab0 libslab0 - beautification app library file network-manager-kde - KDE systray applet for controlling NetworkManager network-manager-gnome - network management framework (GNOME frontend) network-manager-openvpn-gnome - network management framework (OpenVPN plugin GNOME GUI) network-manager-openvpn - network management framework (OpenVPN plugin core) network-manager-pptp-gnome - network management framework (PPTP plugin) network-manager-pptp - network management framework (PPTP plugin) network-manager-vpnc-gnome - network management framework (VPNC plugin GNOME GUI) network-manager-vpnc - network management framework (VPNC plugin core) network-manager-dev - network management framework (development files) network-manager - network management framework daemon strongswan-nm - strongSwan plugin to interact with NetworkManager
In particular you want network-manager-gnome (for the GNOME panel applet thingy) and network-manager.
However you might find the version of network manager in Lenny a bit too old for recent 3G dongles; certainly the support is much improved in the version in Squeeze. (I have an Option Icon 225 from Orange that works with Squeeze but was unsupported in Lenny, for example.)
J.
On 22/02/11 22:32, Anthony Anson wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Just for ease, the package in lenny is called network-manager. A simple apt-get install network-manager so be all you need.
Found two network-manager files with Gnome Apt: both followed by 'Net' - does this indicate that network-manager is available, but only by downloading it?
look for "NetworkManager" (case matters)
find / -name NetworkManager
it should be in /usr/sbin
on my system it starts up at start up system -> preferences->startup applications
and can be started manually with system->preferences->network connections
but then I use ubuntu (10.04). so things might be different.
On 23-Feb-11 08:24:29, nev young wrote:
On 22/02/11 22:32, Anthony Anson wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Just for ease, the package in lenny is called network-manager. A simple apt-get install network-manager so be all you need.
Found two network-manager files with Gnome Apt: both followed by 'Net'
does this indicate that network-manager is available, but only by downloading it?
look for "NetworkManager" (case matters)
find / -name NetworkManager
it should be in /usr/sbin
on my system it starts up at start up system -> preferences->startup applications
and can be started manually with system->preferences->network connections
but then I use ubuntu (10.04). so things might be different. -- nev
On Debian (Lenny) I find this under System -> Preferences -> Sessions
As a general comment: All of the network management (case-insensitive) stuff can be found using
locate -i manager | grep [Nn]etwork
This will list anything with "NetworkManager" and "network-manager", and anything else that matches.
Ted.
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Jonathan McDowell wrote:
However you might find the version of network manager in Lenny a bit too old for recent 3G dongles;
Especially my installation, which went on the box not long after the stable version appeared.
Perhaps I ought to update it?
certainly the support is much improved in the version in Squeeze. (I have an Option Icon 225 from Orange that works with Squeeze but was unsupported in Lenny, for example.)
Thanks: had found it, buried, and with no obvious links from 'desktop'/taskbar etc.
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