Network management and monitoring application ?

[Edmund Laugasson]

> I'm looking for an application to setup networks wired and wireless using WPA 
> security on a laptop and monitor them via an applet on the Panel.
> I tried knetworkmanager but it seems it cannot manage wireless connections.

I like WiCD - http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
It has wired and wireless networks support and also tray icon. There are also Ubuntu repositories to 
install it - check at program's homepage. It supports also WPA2 encryption.