On Mon, May 7, 2007 8:21 pm, Robert Fisher wrote: > Roger Searle wrote: >> Could you share an outline of how you set up the wireless, to the point >> you are at now? I'm not sure what I should look for / at. >> >> Perhaps you are working in gnome, I am a KDE guy, however your pointers >> may get me going in the general direction. >> > I usually use KDE too but after Steve's post I thought I should have a > look at the latest Ubuntu. > > In Mepis (KDE) I simply select > System > Mepis > Mepis Network assistant > > After that I do not think you could go wrong following your nose. (You > need to know the SID and keys) > > Ubuntu 7.04 was even easier... > An applet, in the top right of the screen, called NetworkManager Applet > 0.6.4 > was automatically installed. > Right clicking the applet shows the detected networks (which was even > better than Mepis) and you select the one you want to connect to (not > the insecure neighbour's one in my case) and follow your nose again. > > Rob >
knetworkmanager is a tool to look out for in KDE. It was developed by Suse by the look of it. Its in sabayon by default, and the version is listed as 0.1 (?). It seems to work well though. Easy to insert the WEP key. No experience with WPA using it sorry. Uses kwallet to store the WEP key, which brings us back to the issue that started this thread, you need to put in the kwallet password to start wireless networking on login to KDE. If you want to have wireless start when the machine starts, its back to the text config options, which are distro based. In debian/ubuntu land its /etc/network/interfaces - as has been pointed out in at least two threads so far. -- Nick Rout
