DapperKNetworkmanager

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KNetworkManager is a KDE frontend to Network Manager developped by Novell for the OpenSuse distribution.
It requires 0.6 version of Network Manager.
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Network Manager aims for Network Connectivity which "Just Works". The computer should use the wired network connection when its plugged in, but automatically switch to a wireless connection when the user unplugs it and walks away from the desk. Likewise, when the user plugs the computer back in, the computer should switch back to the wired connection. The user should, most times, not even notice that their connection has has been managed for them; they should simply see uninterrupted network connectivity.

Network manager that "has the chance" of being integrated into Dapper will feature support for WPA and 802.1x as well. We will will also provide l-r-m packages.

More information about Network Manager is available [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ here] .
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Note: The repository isn't signed yet, but will be a bit later.

 * Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:{{{
deb http://kubuntu.no-ip.org/kubuntu dapper main
deb-src http://kubuntu.no-ip.org/kubuntu dapper main
}}}
 * Add the repository as instructed in DapperNetworkManager
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 * network-manager, nm-applet (by [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkManager maintainers)
 * libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker, patched by us)
 * network-manager, nm-applet (by [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkManager Dapper n-m maintainers])
 * libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker)
 * libnl-dev (
patched by [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkManager Dapper n-m maintainers] and us)
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 * linux-restricted-modules (patched so that madwifi users can use WPA networks with n-m)
   (builded by Adam Conrad)
 * linux-restricted-modules (patched so that madwifi users can use WPA networks with n-m)          
   (built by AdamConrad)
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Perhaps you need [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkmanager DapperNetworkManager]?


New kernel builds are on the way, and once that happens our L-R-M package will be overwritten. Once the new kernel builds are out, we will work hard to rebuild the package, so that it works for new kernel build as well. When that happen, you can just upgrade the system.

Status

Dapper KNetworkManager

KNetworkManager is a KDE frontend to Network Manager developped by Novell for the OpenSuse distribution. It requires 0.6 version of Network Manager.

Network Manager aims for Network Connectivity which "Just Works". The computer should use the wired network connection when its plugged in, but automatically switch to a wireless connection when the user unplugs it and walks away from the desk. Likewise, when the user plugs the computer back in, the computer should switch back to the wired connection. The user should, most times, not even notice that their connection has has been managed for them; they should simply see uninterrupted network connectivity.

Network manager that "has the chance" of being integrated into Dapper will feature support for WPA and 802.1x as well. We will will also provide l-r-m packages.

More information about Network Manager is available [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ here] .

Installation

  • Add the repository as instructed in DapperNetworkManager

  • Run sudo apt-get update

  • Run sudo apt-get install knetworkmanager

The repository contains the following packages:

And also:

Notes

Network-manager doesn't manage interfaces defined in /etc/network/interfaces. To get n-m to manage all the interfaces properly, backup /etc/network/interfaces and remove everything except the lines concerning the lo interface.

Discussion about these packages is also going on in this forum [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=145230 thread].

Madwifi doesn't report status in percentages, but rather in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rssi RSSI].

Perhaps you need [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkmanager DapperNetworkManager]?

New kernel builds are on the way, and once that happens our L-R-M package will be overwritten. Once the new kernel builds are out, we will work hard to rebuild the package, so that it works for new kernel build as well. When that happen, you can just upgrade the system.

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Comments

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