As nice as NetworkManager is, if it doesn't work you might have some fun. This time I had the problem that my hostname was constantly set to localhost.localdomain. As my laptops name is tom, I wanted to have it this way. Adding the parameters to the /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf did not help. The solution to this problem is presented here: Just downgrade dbus from 1.2.3 to 1.2.1, restart dbus, upgrade dbus 1.2.3 again, restart dbus. done. Don't ask me why it works. I didn't have the time to dig into the problem. But this solves the problem. At least it did for me.

I played around with Networkmanager again today. It's doing is job very nice in its everyday task like connecting me to the university network. It doesn't require and unmasking anymore, which is very nice.

Today I decided I want to use the openvpn-plugin for NetworkManager so don't have to get get a root shell every time I want to send a mail. I need to connect to the vpn to reach my smtp port. Using the correct settings allows me to send mails. The only remaining problem is that it always replace my dns-servers, so once I connect to my vpn I have no dns anymore. But i haven't checked why that happens. Maybe I will figure out sooner or later. Or I will just install a dns server on my box.

After some time just trying to figure out what is actually wrong and upgrading and downgrading again is started working again. I just don't know what it was. I also installed knetworkmanager now with proper useflags (cisco, openvpn) so I can connect to the networks easily when required.

I started using konqueror as a my default browser some time ago. It really works very well for most pages. Issues usally only occure if pages use javascript, as konqueror is quite conform to the css-standard (see the acid2-test). But somehow there is a problem with wordpress, which is powering this blog. Everything works nicely except editing blog entries. If you put a enter somewhere in text, which will infact cause a new line in the entry, you will never get rid of it again except you save your message and use firefox. But I can live with that. Hopefully it will be fixed some day.

I also need to try out the galleryplugin. But first i have to reorder my gallery