Getting network manager on the gnome panel

I've just installed 10.10 from a minimal iso. I've installed gnome-core and the network manager (among a few other things), and I've added the notification area to the panel.

According to the system monitor, nm-applet is currently running, but I can't see it in the notification area. How can I resolve this?

EDIT:

I've noticed that if I click really close to the right of the notification area I get a nm-applet dropdown box but it says "device not managed" under "Wired Network" (I am connected to the internet though), yet there is no nm-applet graphic.

If you see "device not managed" then probably your NIC is indeed not managed from network-manager.

Please check the following file:

/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

What does the following section say ?:

[ifupdown]
managed=?

if it's set to "false", switch it to "true", save the file and run a:

"sudo service network-manager restart"

Ok I tracked down a Ubuntu forum Thread about it here

nm-applet icon missing from panel

One of the solutions which hasen't been mentioned here is the work around mentioned in launchpad.

OK, weird, I haven't had this problem for a couple of days now. The thing I did was to right click the panel, select 'properties', and then disable 'expand', wait till the panel resizes and then enable 'expand'

Try this one and if it doesn't work there are a few others in post.

Hope this help's