On Sat, May 16, 2009 20:01, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > The primary job at hand: what's the gui tool to configure eth0? Manual > configuration, static IP, DNS, gateway, and all in a way I can teach a > non-techie. Plus saving it as a profile, then handling multiple profiles > for traveling. > > Any kubuntu users able to point me in the right direction?
Not a Kubuntu user (tried it once, but it seemed to be Ubuntu's bastard sibling that no-one talks about). I use Mepis, which is also KDE-based. Mepis has a bunch of Mepis-written tools for user management and system management (including networks) that fill in the blanks that are *still* present. So why didn't you just install openSUSE? Anyway, I can recommend wicd for networking. It seems to Just Work. I assume it's on a laptop (you mentioned travelling). You can set up different profiles for the wired and wireless interfaces, with different parameters for different named wireless networks. To install it you might need to add or edit sources.list for apt, or just try apt-get install wicd, or find it with Google (I can't remember how I installed it). It does seem to expose flakiness already present in certain wireless drivers. I have noticed the following problems: 1) Connecting to a particular 3Com AP- can only do it when Skype is not running. If Skype is running the network is reported as connected and working, but it's not. Solution: stop Skype, disconnect and reconnect wifi, start Skype. 2) Certain APs with certain settings will freeze the PC. Not sure about this one, but nothing changes from one physical location to the other but the AP box. 3) Some OpenGL screen savers seem to freeze the PC when coming back from sleep now that I have wicd. Too many seemingly unrelated items to troubleshoot. Solution (for now) select a simple screen saver. Aside from that, wicd is the Right Way to solve this problem. HTH, A
