Wireless works with Ubuntu 8.10, but not with Kubuntu 8.10

[Eric (Kubuntu)]

Willy Hamra wrote:
> this is really weird.
> do you mind having 2 desktop environments? the laptop have ubuntu
> (gnome) now, and wireless is working right? try to install using your
> favourite package manager, the package "kubuntu-desktop", the simplest
> way is to run from konsole:
> 
> sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
> 
> this will install KDE4 alongside GNOME, effectively giving you
> kubuntu, but on the same setup that is successfully configuring
> wireless. and then at the login screen, you can choose if you want to
> log into GNOME or KDE.
> hope this helps
> 


Well sure enough, installing kubuntu-desktop onto of Ubuntu 8.10
worked... I can connect to wireless networks in KDE.  Still very odd
that a straight Kubuntu install did not work.  I wonder what is broken.


--Eric