Hello,
I recently wanted to configure a wifi network on my laptop, and I tried to find network manager / the GUI that usually lets me do this.
I can't find it anywhere.
and the little icon that was in the system tray of the bottom desktop panel has disappeared.
There is nothing relevant under the network section of settings.
Package manager shows that 'network-manager' package is installed. I reinstalled it but it didn't change anything.
I tried doing 'sudo service network-manager start' and 'sudo service network-manager restart' but it gives this error:
Failed to restart network-manager.service: Unit network-manager.service not found.
what should I do?
Scheduled Maintenance: We are aware of an issue with Google, AOL, and Yahoo services as email providers which are blocking new registrations. We are trying to fix the issue and we have several internal and external support tickets in process to resolve the issue. Please see: viewtopic.php?t=158230
[SOLVED] mystery of the disappearing network-manager
[SOLVED] mystery of the disappearing network-manager
Last edited by kau-92 on 2021-10-22 10:41, edited 1 time in total.
Re: mystery of the disappearing network-manager
Hi,
You don't say what desktop you use but I guess you refer to the nm-applet.
To restart networking:
Maybe you can restore it simply by typing nm-applet in the terminal and add it to start-up applications?
You don't say what desktop you use but I guess you refer to the nm-applet.
To restart networking:
Code: Select all
user@debian:~$ su -
Password:
root@debian:~# systemctl restart networking
Code: Select all
$ apt search nm-applet
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
nm-tray/stable 0.4.3-2+b1 amd64
Simple Network Manager frontend written in Qt
nm-tray-l10n/stable 0.4.3-2 all
Language package for nm-tray
DebianStable
Code: Select all
$ vrms
No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian! rms would be proud.
Re: mystery of the disappearing network-manager
Desktop : I'm using KDE, Plasma.
doing : systemctl restart networking
does not bring up the network manager, though internet works fine.
apt search nm-applet
outputs exactly as the code in post above :
typing nm-applet in the terminal outputs following :
bash: nm-applet: command not found
doing : systemctl restart networking
does not bring up the network manager, though internet works fine.
apt search nm-applet
outputs exactly as the code in post above :
Code: Select all
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
nm-tray/stable 0.4.3-2+b1 amd64
Simple Network Manager frontend written in Qt
nm-tray-l10n/stable 0.4.3-2 all
Language package for nm-tray
typing nm-applet in the terminal outputs following :
bash: nm-applet: command not found
Re: mystery of the disappearing network-manager
Then it's not nm-applet that you need but plasma-nm
and the restart command in Bullseye is:
See wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager for details.
and the restart command in Bullseye is:
Code: Select all
# service NetworkManager restart
DebianStable
Code: Select all
$ vrms
No non-free or contrib packages installed on debian! rms would be proud.
Re: mystery of the disappearing network-manager
Yes! plasma-nm was not installed for some reason. After install, connections show up under network section of settings.
thanks!
thanks!