Bug 221393

Summary:	knetworkmanager should try to wake up NetworkManager if it is not available
Product:	Network Management	Reporter:	Dan <direx>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	orion, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dan 2010-01-05 14:22:28 UTC

Version:           svn (using KDE 4.3.4)
Compiler:          gcc 4.3.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

If knetworkmanager cannot talk to NetworkManager it simply says "Networking information not available". It should rather try to activate NetworkManager, which can be done issuing the following command:

dbus-send --system --dest=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.wake

Comment 1 Orion Poplawski 2010-05-04 22:15:10 UTC

I'm not sure it should start it.  But it definitely should reconnect if NM is restarted - which it currently does not.  Let me know if you want a separate bug for that.

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2010-05-05 00:13:58 UTC

Fwiw, nm-applet reconnects when nm service is restarted, so doing as orion suggested would help bring knm one step closer to parity.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2010-10-09 20:22:17 UTC

Support for this was added recently, since 2010-08-30 at least, a possible side effect of bug #238325