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Network manager that "has the chance" of being integrated into Dapper will feature support for WPA and 802.1x as well. We will also provide l-r-m packages. | 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. |
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---- /!\ '''Edit conflict - your version:''' ---- 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. [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkManager Dapper n-m maintainers] will also provide l-r-m packages. More information about Network Manager is available [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ here] . ---- /!\ '''End of edit conflict''' ---- |
Status
Created: by AnthonyMercatante, LukaRenko
Priority: LowPriority
Maintainers: AnthonyMercatante, LukaRenko
Contributors: AdamConrad, MarioDanic
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Status: Building packages, DapperGoal
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- Malone Bug:
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- Current needs: As much testers as possible
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
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
Run sudo apt-get update
Run sudo apt-get install knetworkmanager
The repository contains the following packages:
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])
wpasupplicant 0.4 with the required feature for n-m backported from 0.5 (by ReinhardTartler)
And also:
knetworkmanager (by AnthonyMercatante, a patch from LukaRenko)
- linux-restricted-modules (patched so that madwifi users can use WPA networks with n-m)
(built by AdamConrad)
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].
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Comments
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DapperKNetworkmanager (last edited 2008-08-06 16:34:02 by localhost)