I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it
identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ which
results in a 404 error.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.
To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

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On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 08:41:17 -0500
Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
which results in a 404 error.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.
To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

For scripting or similar, man nmcli for commands. For manual control,
the networking panel applet has a button to turn wifi on and off if the hardware is fitted.

There is a reference manual https://networkmanager.dev/docs/api/latest/
which digs heavily into DBus and may be Too Much Information. There is
a Debian Wiki, which may not have enough, though it does have a link to
a general Debian Wifi HowTo.

I don't think separate documentation for each version exists, it will
be necessary to study the README and changelogs for the Network Manager components in /usr/share/docs.

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Joe

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try here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet

On 4/2/25 06:41, Richard Owlett wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ which results in a 404 error.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.
To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

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On 4/2/25 9:32 AM, Peter Ehlert wrote:

try here:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/network-manager-applet

That page tries to load. Evidently doesn't like my configuration of
SeaMonkey. Doesn't surprise me as I've got a strange configuration.

However Debian's default configuration of Firefox has no apparent
problem with it.

However that page has no link to operation documentation.
Any suggestions and thanks for trying.

On 4/2/25 06:41, Richard Owlett wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it
identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ which
results in a 404 error.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.
To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

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Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/
which results in a 404 error.

I think the link should have been to https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/NetworkManager

Which points out the page is retired. Perhaps a better starting point
is https://networkmanager.dev/docs/api/latest/ which says: "The end
users NetworkManager should instead refer to respective documentation
of their desktop environment of choice."

and that in turn led me to https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager

Beyond that point I think you should be able to follow yourself.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.
To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

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On 2/4/25 21:41, Richard Owlett wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ which results in a 404 error.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.
To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

Two things that you might want to try.

1. Ask the questions here.

2. view https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/plucky/en/man8/NetworkManager.8.html

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .

I've also just noticed that NM 1.30 belongs on an older release of
Debian than 12.

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On 3/4/25 04:00, [email protected] wrote:

Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it
identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .

I've also just noticed that NM 1.30 belongs on an older release of
Debian than 12.

The version of the applet in my taskbar, shows as 1.24.0 (copyrighted to
Red Hat,and I believe that I have not used Red hat, since v6.0), from
the About item in the menu, running on Mate

Synaptic shows my version of Network Manager, as 1.36.6-0 .

Synaptic shows the Mate desktop to be v1.26.0-1 .

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 05:34:35 +0800
Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:

The version of the applet in my taskbar, shows as 1.24.0 (copyrighted
to Red Hat,and I believe that I have not used Red hat, since v6.0),
from the About item in the menu, running on Mate

Synaptic shows my version of Network Manager, as 1.36.6-0 .

charles@peregrine:~$ pre network-manager
network-manager 1.42.4-1 amd64
network-manager-gnome 1.30.0-2 amd64
charles@peregrine:~$ cat /etc/debian_version
12.10
charles@peregrine:~$

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https://charlescurley.com/blog/

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On 4/2/25 8:41 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:

I am running Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
When right-clicking on the Network Manager icon's "About" button it identifies itself as version 1.30.0 .
There is a link to http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ which results in a 404 error.

I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi.

I was approaching my underlying situation from an inappropriate
direction. Time and referenced documentation [especially Joe's to
manpage nmcli] jogged my thought process. My situation really concerns information channels not individual hardware devices.

Case effectively closed. Thank you.

To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation.
Where do I find it?

TIA

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