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Description of problem: With the new Network Manager, I cannot activate wireless networking. If the hardware's wireless switch is switched to the off position, GNOME Shell's Network Manager menu shows the On/Off switches. As soon as I switch the physical hardware switch on the laptop to "On", the Network Manager menu changes to "Invalid." Wireless was fully supported and functional under the GNOME 2.x series Network Manager. If I click on the Network Manager menu's "Network Settings" option, the Control Panel launches with this error message: "The system network services are not compatible with this version." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-0.8.997-8.git20110331.fc15.x86_64 Additional info: Smolt hardware profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_97f2bc7d-2209-49fd-885d-3ce26fe9b1f4
If I alt-Fn to another terminal, there is a string of Polkit errors for GDBus saying that Action.org.freedesktop.NetworkManager-use-user-connections is not registered.
It seems liek the old version of NM is still running. What do you get when you run this command from the terminal? dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager string:Version
Remember that you'd need to reboot after upgrading, you can't just log out because that won't start the new NM. Alternatively, you could: service NetworkManager restart after upgrading NM.
Hello Dan Yes, I hadn't rebooted for a few days, although I have been logging in and out of GNOME and killed X a few times, so it may not have picked up a change to the NetworkManager daemon. I just restarted the service and it is now picking up the Red Hat wlan - lovely, thanks! By the way, FYI, I tried your other command and I think the syntax was slightly wrong because it returned this: # dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Getstring:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager string:Version Must use org.mydomain.Interface.Method notation, no dot in "string:Version" Cheers and thanks.
David, the command syntax is OK. The problem is there are spaces, where bugzilla wrap lines. so maybe, its better to write it like this (you can copy with mouse and paste to a terminal): dbus-send --system --print-reply \ --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \ /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager \ org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get \ string:org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \ string:Version BTW, can we close the bug then?
Thanks, Jirka. Yes, feel free to close it. :-)