DapperKNetworkmanager

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KNetworkManager is a KDE frontend to Network Manager developed by Novell for the OpenSuse distribution. It is nicely integrated into KDE desktop as it runs in sys tray and stores your WEP/WPA passwords into KDE Wallet.
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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] .
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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 Dapper n-m maintainers])
 * libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker, [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperNetworkManager Dapper n-m maintainers]))		  * network-manager, nm-applet (by DapperNetworkManager maintainers])
 * libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker)
 * libnl-dev (patched by DapperNetworkManager 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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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].		 See notes at the DapperNetworkManager page.
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 * knetworkmanager does not show up if Xgl is used - see [http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=842732&postcount=19 forum post]

Status

Dapper KNetworkManager

KNetworkManager is a KDE frontend to Network Manager developed by Novell for the OpenSuse distribution. It is nicely integrated into KDE desktop as it runs in sys tray and stores your WEP/WPA passwords into KDE Wallet.

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

See notes at the DapperNetworkManager page.

Issues

Comments

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