Knetworkmanager not starting 9.10

[Nigel Ridley]

Jerry Lapham wrote:
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:40:36 am Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 
>> We have a Dell Vostro laptop running Kubuntu 9.10. There are several user
>> accounts. Sometimes Knetworkmanager will not start for an individual user
>> and has to be started manually. I even added it to the 'System Settings >
>> Advanced > Autostart' and it still refuses to start automatically. This is
>> not the case for all users all the time. It did happen once to my wife's
>> account but a log-out/log-in fixed it.
>>
>> How do I get it to start as it should?
>>
>> If I decide to use network-manager-gnome instead, how can I make sure that
>> knetworkmanager stops loading - forever?
> 
> You might also want to consider wicd.  It disables knetworkmanager when it's 
> installed.
> 
> 	-Jerry

Jerry, I just installed wicd - works as advertised :-)
I did try KnetworkManager again after trying Network-Manager-Gnome - both failed to be 100% 
reliable on a multi-user system.

So the winner is ----- drum roll ---- wicd

Blessings,

Nigel