Wifi Icon (Solved)

[Giskard]

Hello, i'm a longtime KDE pclinuxos user, recently i have boght a samsung netbook to my daughter and the first thing was install pclinux (latest), everything was fine except the wifi icon, it is showing the black circle with a green tick,but on my acer laptop (fully updated) a have the correct icon bars. i have search on the forum, but i found nothing. i have updated with the latest network packages but the problem remains, i have created a new user but the same.

Any Help?

Thank's and Regards

[Phil]

Hi Giskard,

Have you updated the machine with synaptic?

I think there was a glitch with the network item which was fixed, have a look a few posts down in the Networking section.

[Giskard]

Hi phill, yes i have updated with synaptic today, the network works fine,only the icon don`t change. 

Thank's for your answer.

[AS]

please open a terminal and run the following command:

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rpm -qa  | grep drakx-net
AS

[Giskard]

Hi As, here is the output


[sofi@setsi ~]$ rpm -qa | grep drakx-net
libdrakx-net-0.87-12pclos2012
drakx-net-text-0.87-12pclos2012
drakx-net-0.87-12pclos2012


Thank's and regards

[AS]

Hi As, here is the output


[sofi@setsi ~]$ rpm -qa | grep drakx-net
libdrakx-net-0.87-12pclos2012
drakx-net-text-0.87-12pclos2012
drakx-net-0.87-12pclos2012


Thank's and regards

That's the correct version ... beside the icon, is the network wifi connection working ?

[Giskard]

Hi As, yes works perfect, both wifi and ethernet. let me tell you, that this problem only happens to me with this netbook, in my laptop I have no problems and both my laptop and  my daughter samsung netbook I have installed the same initial version PCLinuxOS 2012 KDE Desktop, and both have broadcom drivers.

[AS]

Hi As, yes works perfect, both wifi and ethernet. let me tell you, that this problem only happens to me with this netbook, in my laptop I have no problems and both my laptop and  my daughter samsung netbook I have installed the same initial version PCLinuxOS 2012 KDE Desktop, and both have broadcom drivers.

If you have updated the samsung today ... including drakx-net related packages ... beware that a reboot is required to activate the updated packages ... else I'm out of ideas.

Eventually try to reinstall drakx-net and libdrakx-net packages ... and reboot.

The broadcom-wl drivers is not related in this case, as it appear the connection is working.

AS

[Giskard]

AS, thank for your time, and yes i have rebooted after the update. i will try to install again those packages.

Thank you and Regards

[Giskard]

Hi As, yes works perfect, both wifi and ethernet. let me tell you, that this problem only happens to me with this netbook, in my laptop I have no problems and both my laptop and  my daughter samsung netbook I have installed the same initial version PCLinuxOS 2012 KDE Desktop, and both have broadcom drivers.

If you have updated the samsung today ... including drakx-net related packages ... beware that a reboot is required to activate the updated packages ... else I'm out of ideas.

AS, i have reinstalled the drak-net libdrakx-net related packages but the problem remains. anyway, thank`s for your time and help.

Best Regards
Eventually try to reinstall drakx-net and libdrakx-net packages ... and reboot.

The broadcom-wl drivers is not related in this case, as it appear the connection is working.

AS

[Giskard]

After the latest draknet and broadcom drivers update, the icon become the standard wifi.