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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)
 * 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)		  * network-manager, network-manager-gnome (by DapperNetworkManager maintainers])
 * network-manager-kde (by AnthonyMercatante, a patch from LukaRenko)
 * libnl1, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker)
 * libnl-dev (patched by DapperNetworkManager maintainers and us)
 * wpasupplicant 0.4.8 with the required feature for n-m backported from 0.5 (by ReinhardTartler)
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 * knetworkmanager (by AnthonyMercatante, a patch from LukaRenko)
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   (built by AdamConrad)    (built by AdamConrad) - now also included in offical repository

= 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 network-manager-kde''
 * network-manager discussion: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/

== TODO list ==
Work on package:
 * Get rid of Dial Up networking - DONE
    * to complicated to replace yast2 with kppp and similar (will discuss with upstream for future)
 * r5909 crash on first connect to WPA2-PSK - DONE
    * reported to author and resolved with version r5961
 * 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 - in progress: http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2220
 * Get package in universe (past 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]
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I can't seem to find network-manager-kde anywhere in the ubuntu package trees, I'm running network-manager 6.1 in dapper right now, if the kde applet is not yet in the main tree, can someone post a temporary link directly to the deb package? Thanks.
 * source packages are currently available on [http://revu.tauware.de/details.py?upid=2220 REVU]
 * there is also test binary package for i386
 * we hope this will get accepted to universe ASAP

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:

  • linux-restricted-modules (patched so that madwifi users can use WPA networks with n-m)

    • (built by AdamConrad) - now also included in offical repository

About Development

TODO list

Work on package:

  • Get rid of Dial Up networking - DONE
    • to complicated to replace yast2 with kppp and similar (will discuss with upstream for future)
  • r5909 crash on first connect to WPA2-PSK - DONE
    • reported to author and resolved with version r5961

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

Work on inclusion of the package:

Notes

See notes at the DapperNetworkManager page.

Issues

Comments

I can't seem to find network-manager-kde anywhere in the ubuntu package trees, I'm running network-manager 6.1 in dapper right now, if the kde applet is not yet in the main tree, can someone post a temporary link directly to the deb package? Thanks.

Please do not edit this page directly, place your comments here. Thanks.

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