Comment # 2 on bug 901008 from Giuseppe Gorgoglione

(In reply to Bernhard Wiedemann from comment #1)
> I think NetworkManager is only the default for laptops,
> while wicked would be used on other machines.
> 
> Is this a laptop? Wired or Wireless connection?

My installation is under VMware Workstation. The host system is a laptop with
both wired and wireless connections (both shared with guest as virtual wired
connection through NAT).

I just reinstalled a VM from scratch and verified that my bug description was
not totally correct: the network connection is actually available out of the
box, served by wicked. I was confused by the fact that the KDE NetworkManager
tray applet is still loaded by default even when NetworkManager service is
disabled, and incorrectly shows the network as not available.