3G with knetworkmanager

[Michael Krueger]

Hi,

I had somewhat similar problems. The issue is that there are multiple choices if
you search with apt for networkmanager. For kde4 there seem to be two options.
There is the "old" network manager for plasma called:
plasma-widget-networkmanagement
which I believe I had installed but caused the bahavior you describe, meaning it
did not connect to any network. I was able to setup WLAN connections with it,
but it would not talk to the networkmanager backend to actually establish a
connection. Then I found the second choice which actually worked for me:
plasma-widget-network-manager

The knetworkmanager is uninstalled and not in use.

This is in KDE 4.3. I'm not sure, maybe it was something else I did, but my best
bet is that you scan the options made available by the package manager and
verify what you have installed.

Michael

Evandro Myller schrieb:
> Hello.
> 
> I had to install KDE 3.5's knetworkmanager in my Kubuntu jaunty to get
> 3G working, its native network manager didn't work for me. Months later,
> after playing around with some PPAs, I found a new knetworkmanager (in
> kubuntu-experimental PPA) and installed it.
> 
> I got joyful like I've never been before: the new knetworkmanager worked
> like a charm, and it was now integrated with KDE 4 network stuff. Some
> upgradings later, it just stopped working and I have to fallback to
> pon/poff to get the thing working. I'm on karmic now and it's still broken.
> 
> Note: when KDE starts, it automatically connects using the
> networkmanagement settings, but knetworkmanager stays like if it's
> disconnected.
> 
> Anyone got this problem too? Any workaround? Maybe there's a missing
> package here, dunno.
> 
> -- 
> E. Myller
> Front-end engineer / architect
> http://emyller.net/
>