WIFI/ KNetworkmanager: very good at one netbook, weird behaviour at another one.

[Bas Roufs - En.]

Dear Everybody,

at present I am having a weird experience with WIFI. I have two "netbooks" 
with each a fully updated "fresh" install of Kubuntu 12.04, along with KDE 
4.9.1.  

At one netbook, a Eee PC 1001 HA, KNetworkmanager functions in a excellent 
way, also when using WIFI. 

The other netbook is a HP Pavilion dm 1. Though I have there exactly the same 
OS-GUI combination, I cannot really rely on WIFI: not via KNetworkmanager, 
also not via "WICD". The networkmanager keeps stuck in the "configuring 
interface" stage and prompts for the password every five minutes. The only 
"workaround" I have found so far, is restarting the system, until it catches 
the WIFI signal - a sometimes time consuming procedure. 
A weird detail is the behaviour of the networkmanager when the system is 
connected to internet via a wired connection. Even in such a situation, the 
networkmanager keeps trying to establish also a wireless connection - each 5 
minutes it prompts for the password, while the "interface" is being 
"configured".

My question is now: is there a way to get a more reliable WIFI connection for 
the HP Pavilion dm 1? 



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