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Network Manager missing

Asked by LEGOManiac

Someone left me a message today pointing me to Network Manager (nm-applet). I knew I had seen these menus before but hadn't been able to find them. Now I realize it's missing. It used to be in my upper panel next to the date and time but it's gone now. I don't recall removing it, and running "nm-applet" produces an error message that states that one of the needed resources is already taken which I presume means that Network Manager is already running.

Also, the person who replied to me said I should be able to find it in System->Preferences->Network. I don't have that. I have Network Connections and Network Proxy, neither of which is what I"m looking for.

On the top panel I have the Network Monitor applet installed - but again, it's not the same thing.

How do I get Network Manager back?

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Janith Sampath Bandara (janith) said : 		#1

Download " network-manager.deb " and " network-manager-gnome.deb " files from http://packages.ubuntu.com/

install these files using this command.
sudo dpkg -i network-manager.deb network-manager-gnome.deb

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LEGOManiac (bzflaglegomaniac) said : 		#2

I tried:

sudo apt-get install network-manager

which says the latest version is already installed.

As I indicated above, I had it before but it's missing from my upper panel and I don't know how to get it back.

For what it's worth, I had a problem for a long time with my display size changing which caused the icons along the top panel to become mis-aligned frequently. This is a known issue which I had thought had been fixed recently, although I wouldn't know for sure as I found another way to circumvent the problem.

At any rate, I suspect the icon is still on the top bar but is, perhaps, off-screen (?). I've tried moving everything left to see if it shows up again, but it didn't.

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Best Janith Sampath Bandara (janith) said : 		#3

It seems your network works properly.
then try this.

right click in the GNOME panel and select "Add to panel" and select Notification Area. The icon should now appear...

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LEGOManiac (bzflaglegomaniac) said : 		#4

Thanks Janith Sampath Bandara, that solved my question.