Easier Network Control
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Networking is one of the things I like about openSUSE, the problem is that it's not clear very clear how to get user controlled networking activated.
First, activate it in yast; yast-gt;network devices-gt;network settings-gt;global options tab (easy enough). Here's the problem though... nothing happens. Maybe if you reboot the machine or restart X (I don't know), but to get it working immediately, I had to do two things:
- as root, run 'NetworkManager'; this starts the daemon (ps aux | grep NetworkManager to see if it's already running first)
- as user, run 'knetworkmanager'; this starts the KDE client, which should add an icon to your system tray (I wonder if you don't have a system tray...?)
