On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:55:47AM -0000, Stephan Frank wrote: > I think I can shed some light on the subject. I have a machine that was > updated yesterday from hardy to intrepid (i386). After the update I was > seeing the same symptoms as described above (no nm-applet icon in the > notification area, though Networkmanager and nm-applet were running, > nothing in /var/crash). > > I ignored the problem for a while though had a look into my > /var/log/syslog for other reasons and noted a message about the driver > for my wlan stick (rt73usb) not being able to find the firmware. After > installing the linux-firmware package and rebooting the nm-applet > appeared as usual. > > Apparently there is a missing dependency that leads to the linux- > firmware package getting dropped during the update? At least in appears > that the resulting faulty behaviour though seems to lead to the weird > behaviour of nm-applet. >
Can you reproduce this problem when removing that firmware again? - Alexander -- Network Manager fails to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282835 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
