DapperKNetworkmanager

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 * Interested:  * Interested: AchimBohnet
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 * Current needs: As much testers as possible  * Current needs: As many testers as possible
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KNetworkManager is a KDE frontend to Network Manager developped by Novell for the OpenSuse distribution. 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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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.		 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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 * Run {{{sudo apt-get install knetworkmanager}}}  * Run {{{sudo apt-get install network-manager-kde}}}
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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, patched by [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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= About Development =

 * knetworkmanager sources: http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/inst-source/suse/src/ search for ''networkmanager-kde*.src.rpm''
 * debian packaging: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-utopia/packages/experimental/knetworkmanager/?rev=0&sc=0
 * kubuntu packaging:
   * sources.list: ''deb http://kubuntu.no-ip.org/kubuntu dapper main''
   * ''apt-get source knetworkmanager''
 * network-manager discussion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/

== TODO list ==
Work on package:
 * Dial Up networking integration in Kubuntu --AnthonyMercatante
    1. Configure should call kppp instead of yast2
    2. List kppp configured (kpprc) dial-up connections
    3. If dial-up connection is selected, kppp should be called with appropriate selected name
 * r5909 crash on first connect to WPA2-PSK --LukaRenko
 * Help -> Report Bug should probably be removed or replaced with something (it reports to novell.com)

Work on inclusion of the package:
 * Get package REVued
 * Get package in universe (pass feature freeze)
 * Write MainInclusionReport
 * Wait for core team to pick it up for main
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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 network-manager-kde

The repository contains the following packages:

And also:

About Development

TODO list

Work on package:

  • Dial Up networking integration in Kubuntu --AnthonyMercatante

    1. Configure should call kppp instead of yast2
    2. List kppp configured (kpprc) dial-up connections
    3. If dial-up connection is selected, kppp should be called with appropriate selected name

  • r5909 crash on first connect to WPA2-PSK --LukaRenko

  • Help -> Report Bug should probably be removed or replaced with something (it reports to novell.com)

Work on inclusion of the package:

  • Get package REVued
  • Get package in universe (pass feature freeze)

  • Write MainInclusionReport

  • Wait for core team to pick it up for main

Notes

See notes at the DapperNetworkManager page.

Issues

Comments

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