Icons not appearing on desktop, and wireless network troubles

[careless_user]

Decided to experiment with Linux again, desperate to get away from windows for my non-gaming activities...

Anyway, installed openSUSE 10.2 yesterday and it seems to be working okay except for a few oddities.

First of all, there are no icons on the desktop. I would normally expect there to be icons for the file system etc. but nothing. I can create new folders on the desktop and they show up fine, but strangely nothing that I put into the desktop folder appears on the desktop (I assume it should). This isn't a huge problem, but is slightly annoying.

The other thing is the knetworkmanager thing. I have a USB wireless antenna which I want to use to connect to the internet. The device was recognised by YaST when I was installing, so no messing about with ndiswrapper was needed (thank heavens). I tried to use knetworkmanager last night to connect to the network, but every time I tried, the progress bar gets stuck at 28% and says 'configuring device' (or something). When I've tried it today, it doesn't even load properly - nothing appears on the desktop, but the process appears in the system monitor thing. I also occasionally get messages from it 'knetwrokmanager is disconnected' and so on.

So basically... how do I get stuff to show up on the desktop, particularly knetworkmanager, and how do I use knetworkmanager to connect to the wireless network?

[apoorv_khurasia]

In KDE (thats what I get from the posts)...go to KDE control center--->System Administration (Dont give the root password)--->Paths. Specify the path for desktop there. That shall (hopefully) set the icon thing right.

If knetworkmanager is not able to connect u to wireless network I am afraid ndiswrapper would be the only way. In that case have a look this

[careless_user]

In KDE (thats what I get from the posts)...go to KDE control center--->System Administration (Dont give the root password)--->Paths. Specify the path for desktop there. That shall (hopefully) set the icon thing right.

If knetworkmanager is not able to connect u to wireless network I am afraid ndiswrapper would be the only way. In that case have a look this

No actually I'm using GNOME, got a bunch of the KDE apps on there for some reason...

It's weird. There is a folder home/tim/Desktop and anything I create in the desktop goes in there, but anything I create in there doesn't appear on the desktop