I have the latest installs of network-manager
and network-manager-gnome
. I installed Ubuntu Server LTS 14.04, then installed Cinnamon on top of that.
I have LAN network connection (can browse, etc.).
However, the network manager applet doesn't show the network connection as an icon, or when I click and open it. It's an empty list.
- If I
sudo service network-manager stop
the applet disappears. - If I later
sudo service network-manager start
the applet appears again.
So presumably the applet knows about the network-manager
service or the other way around perhaps.
How can I make the applet reflect the actual connected network(s)?
Best Answer
My solution was to edit /etc/network/interfaces and removed the line with my wired ethernet connection.
So long as the connection is listed in the interfaces file network-manager considers it as unmanaged (i.e. network-manager doesn't manage it), hence the nm-applet doesn't reflect the connection status.
I rebooted after editing and the nm-applet behaved!