The applet doesn't want to appear in the notification area when I login. Killing it and restarting it works fine. Nothing obvious in ~/.xsession-errors. And the process is running.
*** Bug 299491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
killing and restarting nm-applet from a text window makes it appear. Wireless networks are only seen if SELinux is in permissive mode. I forwarded the details to fedora-selinux: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-selinux-list/2007-September/msg00082.html
Created attachment 203291 [details] a patch that might help Here is a patch I sent to dcbw, which might help with the incorrect setup of the icon at start.
*** Bug 301611 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Patch has been committed upstream and will appear in the next snapshot in rawhide later tonight.
I installed NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.3.svn2880.fc8 and newest SELinux policy and rebooted. After gdm login, nm-applet now appears (yea!), but the icon has the little 'red X' indicating no network connection. But my wired network is up. 'Left clicking' on the icon shows the Wired network selected and active, and shows all my wireless networks. Selecting 'Wired Network' forces a disconnect/reconnect, with the proper icon now displayed.