<p>I may be able to assist in writing documentation if that is something which no one has come to the aid on.</p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On Nov 24, 2009 10:21 AM, "Will Stephenson" <<a href="mailto:wstephenson@kde.org">wstephenson@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br><br><p><font color="#500050">On Tuesday 24 November 2009 13:58:03 Timothy Murphy wrote:
> What exactly is the purpose of KNetwork...</font></p>What exactly is missing from <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager" target="_blank">http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager</a>,<br>
the first google hit for 'knetworkmanager'?.<br>
<p><font color="#500050">
> I assumed it would have a GUI,
> which would enable me to set some parameters for NM,
> but that ...</font></p>Yes, it does. More info and screenshots:<br>
<a href="http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/07/introducing-kde-4-knetworkmanager" target="_blank">http://dot.kde.org/2009/11/07/introducing-kde-4-knetworkmanager</a><br>
<p><font color="#500050">
> I just installed KNetworkManager,
> and I have an NM icon in my panel.
> When I left-click on thi...</font></p>NM allows one and only one user client to provide it with settings (via a DBUS<br>
service. This warning appears if KNetworkManager is unable to start because<br>
another client already owns the settings DBUS service. Distributions should<br>
prevent multiple NM clients being installed but since NM is a can of worms I'm<br>
not surprised if they get it wrong.<br>
<br>
I've made the warning clearer in trunk already, but I guess you are using a<br>
packaged earlier version.<br>
<br>
Anyway, solutions: I'm going to put my finger in the air and guess that you're<br>
either<br>
<br>
a) using GNOME's nm-applet, for example in a KDE install in Fedora. In which<br>
case you need to stop nm-applet autostarting in KDE or uninstall it.<br>
<br>
b) or are running Kubuntu and have still got their earlier packaging of the<br>
Network Management plasmoid installed, which includes a headless<br>
NetworkManager client as a module for kded. I don't know exactly what the<br>
package name is, but you should find out and uninstall it, then go and tell<br>
your distribution that they should have set a Conflicts on both packages<br>
preventing them from being installed simultaneously. If I'm right about it<br>
being Kubuntu then to complicate matters, they ship KNetworkManager in a<br>
package called something like kde4-plasmoid-knetworkmanager when it isn't a<br>
plasmoid at all.<br>
<br>
c) running openSUSE in which case the joke is on me.<br>
<br>
If none of these help, try killing nm-applet or cnetworkmanager, or a<br>
knetworkmanager instance running as another user or a KDE 3 knetworkmanager,<br>
or unload the kded module with "qdbus org.kde.kded /kded unloadModule<br>
networkmanagement".<br>
<br>
More technical information:<br>
<a href="http://userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement" target="_blank">http://userbase.kde.org/NetworkManagement</a><br>
<p><font color="#500050">
> And I cannot find any documentation on this program.
</font></p>I haven't written any docbook for it yet. I'm off to bake scones now.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
Will<br>
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