DapperNetworkManager

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Dapper 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 [http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ here] .

Network-Manager is beta software.

Installation

The current 0.6.1 package are available from:

http://johan.kiviniemi.name/ubuntu/

The repository contains the following packages:

  • network-manager (by us)

  • libnl, a dependency of n-m 0.6 (by TomParker)

  • wpasupplicant 0.4 with the required feature for n-m backported from 0.5 (by ReinhardTatler)

As instructed on the website:

  • Run wget -q -O- http://johan.kiviniemi.name/pubkey | sudo apt-key add -

  • Add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list: 

          deb http://johan.kiviniemi.name/ubuntu dapper network-manager
      deb-src http://johan.kiviniemi.name/ubuntu dapper network-manager

  • Run sudo apt-get update

  • Run sudo apt-get install network-manager nm-applet

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.

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