11-06-2015, 10:42 PM
Yes firenice03, you have indeed hit on the information I have been trying to explain over and over again. Notice the similarity between your link's image
![[Image: 17325199902_9ceb67ddc1_c.jpg]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7742/17325199902_9ceb67ddc1_c.jpg)
and the one I posted before. And Wirezfree is indeed correct, Linux Lite is based on the earlier version of Ubuntu.
Now, today I tried to upgrade the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages to the latest and greatest in the Ubuntu repositories, but that failed as I sort of expected it would. (It's not clear to me exactly how one determines when it's okay to update/upgrade packages; I was just going by the higher version numbers.)
But all of this still leaves a bunch of questions. As I understand it, the bridging was added long ago, way before the version which is shipped with Linux Lite. If I have the bridge option appearing in this old version, why doesn't it have a way of activating it. I believe there probably was a different way of achieving the on/off switching that you see in the image above. Nobody would have shipped the software the way it seems to operate in our version. I think there is something wrong in the version of nm-applet we have because it also behaves differently from any of the several others I have run. I may try another from a different desktop environment (and/or windows manager), can't one configure some optional ones such as KDE and the like for the desktop? I'm not any better versed in the panel applet interoperability problem than the package revision problem.
You guys have been great to hang in with me for so long on this challenge. I'll try a little more messing around with it. Then I think tonight or tomorrow I may give the command-line/configuration-file method a try or two just to see if I can get it to work.
and the one I posted before. And Wirezfree is indeed correct, Linux Lite is based on the earlier version of Ubuntu.
Now, today I tried to upgrade the network-manager and network-manager-gnome packages to the latest and greatest in the Ubuntu repositories, but that failed as I sort of expected it would. (It's not clear to me exactly how one determines when it's okay to update/upgrade packages; I was just going by the higher version numbers.)
But all of this still leaves a bunch of questions. As I understand it, the bridging was added long ago, way before the version which is shipped with Linux Lite. If I have the bridge option appearing in this old version, why doesn't it have a way of activating it. I believe there probably was a different way of achieving the on/off switching that you see in the image above. Nobody would have shipped the software the way it seems to operate in our version. I think there is something wrong in the version of nm-applet we have because it also behaves differently from any of the several others I have run. I may try another from a different desktop environment (and/or windows manager), can't one configure some optional ones such as KDE and the like for the desktop? I'm not any better versed in the panel applet interoperability problem than the package revision problem.
You guys have been great to hang in with me for so long on this challenge. I'll try a little more messing around with it. Then I think tonight or tomorrow I may give the command-line/configuration-file method a try or two just to see if I can get it to work.