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 also provide l-r-m packages.
More information about Network Manager is available [WWW] here .
Network-Manager is beta software.
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 * libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker, [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])
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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)

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 also provide l-r-m packages. More information about Network Manager is available [WWW] here . Network-Manager is beta software.

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:

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].

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Comments

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