Network Manager auto start

[shelleycat]

Kubuntu 8.10, with KDE 4

On boot, network manager does not appear to start. There is no connection and no indication in the panel. If I start Network Manager (KNetworkManager is also the menu description), then the wireless connection starts, and the indication appears on the panel.

Is this expected behaviour?

There is a /etc/rc4.d/S28NetworkManager entry, so it should be starting (or is that the wrong run level?)

Laptop ASUS A9Rp, wireless device from lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0b05:171b ASUSTek Computer, Inc. A9T wireless
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 2.00
bDeviceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bDeviceSubClass 255 Vendor Specific Subclass
bDeviceProtocol 255 Vendor Specific Protocol
bMaxPacketSize0 64
idVendor 0x0b05 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
idProduct 0x171b A9T wireless

No wired ethernet present.

[shelleycat]

I have now put a link in ~/.kde/Autostart to knetworkmanager, which seems to give an automatic connection at least some of the time.

[joebeasley]

Default runlevel is 2. 'who -r'

Put it in /etc/rc2.d

[shelleycat]

I've found its (S28NetworkManager) got an entry in runlevel 2 as well. Sorry, I found the start up file in 4 and never looked any further.