Network Manager Not Showing Up

[AHB]

I just installed debian 4 on an Acer Aspire 5100-5674 (With a Broadcom 802.11g WLAN card).
Trying to make my wireless work, I installed Gnome Network Manager 0.6. My problem is that the network manager applet does not show up on my desktop. I built and installed NM from a tarball downloaded from GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project, and nm-applet shows up as a running process, but nothing shows up on the bar. I have tried restarting the computer and running nm-applet from the console, and can find nothing about my problem in other forum threads.

Thanks for any help-

AB

[unisol1]

try this; auto loiface lo inet loopback

While the previously mentioned step is not mandatory, it does speed up the network interfaces detection process at startup, as NetworkManager has its own method for automatically bringing up interfaces (and simply doesn't use /etc/network/interfaces).

Debian users have an additional step to perform. For NetworkManager to work, permissions have to be set rightly, so make your user part of the group netdev :

sudo adduser your_username netdev

Of course you need to replace your_username with your actual username.

Once all those steps are performed, simply reboot your machine to set things right.

I had to do 2 things:

1. add my user to the group "netdev"

and

2. reload dbus with "/etc/init.d/dbus reload"