DapperKNetworkmanager
Status
Created: by AnthonyMercatante, LukaRenko
Priority: LowPriority
Maintainers: AnthonyMercatante, LukaRenko
Contributors: AdamConrad, MarioDanic
- Interested:
Status: Building packages, DapperGoal
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- Malone Bug:
- Packages:
- Depends:
- Current needs: As much testers as possible
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:
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)
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
See notes at the DapperNetworkManager page.
Issues
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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