From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050301 Firefox/1.0.1 Galeon/1.3.19 Description of problem: The gnome-netstatus applet, aka Network Monitor, sees the network interface properly and will tell if it is idle or not in properties, but shows a red circle with white minus symbol. It would normally show a computer icon that would blink during activity. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-netstatus-2.9.4-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -i gnome-netstatus-2.9.4-2.i386.rpm 2. Log out 3. Log in to a Gnome session 4. Right click on the gnome panel 5. Select Add to Panel 6. Select Network Monitor 7. Click the Add button Actual Results: Icon on the panel with a red circle and white minus symbol Expected Results: Icon on the panel with a computer icon that blinks Additional info: