3 Managing Network Connections; Using Knetworkmanager - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - KDE 08-05-2008 Manual

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Managing Network
Connections
To surf the Internet or send and receive e-mail messages, you must have configured an
Internet connection with YaST. Depending on your environment, in YaST select whether
to use NetworkManager. In KDE, you can then establish Internet connections with
NetworkManager or KInternet.
For a list of criteria that help you decide whether to use NetworkManager, refer to
Section "Managing Network Connections with NetworkManager" (Chapter 30, Basic
Networking, ↑Deployment Guide) and Section "Integration in Changing Operating
Environments" (Chapter 25, Mobile Computing with Linux, ↑Deployment Guide).

13.1 Using KNetworkManager

The NetworkManager applet should start automatically with the desktop environment.
The applet is then shown as an icon in the system tray. Using the applet, choose a net-
work to use explicitly at any time. Such a choice takes precedence over automatically
selected networks. The chosen network is used as long as it is available. If it becomes
unaccessible, NetworkManager automatically tries to connect to another available net-
work.
If KNetworkManager is not running, start it with the command knetworkmanager.
When it is running, an icon indicating the current network status is shown in the system
tray. Depending on the state of the network connection, the panel icon changes appear-
ance:
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