network manager in gnome 3.6.2 in Arch Linux

Question

Every network manager I've tried is "incompatible with this version" in gnome's settings panel... I can still connect from command line fine, but that's just kind of a pain. solutions I have tried: pacman -Syu networkmanager installed everything fine, but didn't solve pacman -S gnome-extra installed everything fine, but didn't solve pacman -S gnome-network-manager package not found (outdated according to wiki) pacman -S network-manager-applet installed everything fine, but didn't solve

the wiki says network-manager-applet should suffice for gnome. but the GUI won't support it, which is inconvenient. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Use pacman -Ss to search for packages and pacman -Syu to install packages.

To learn about what the switches do in pacman you can use pacman -h. This will output all the main (capital letter) switches such as -S -V -D -Q -R -S -T -U. Each one of these also has switches that you can use, to find out what those are and how they work use pacman -Xh (replacing X with the main switch of your choice).

Also, try to post the exact errors that you're getting so we can get a better understanding as to what's going on. There are also a few of other network managing tools available such as wicd.

Take a look at this page on the Arch Linux Wiki. Should clear up any issue you're having.