Congratulations! And thanks as well. I have been having similar difficulties with my wireless card, and I am also running Feisty. That WICD seems to be the solution! <div>On 5/29/07, Larry Hartman <<a href="mailto:larryhartman50@bellsouth.net">larryhartman50@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> For those who are US citizens, hope you all had a good Memorial Day weekend. I had 4 days off and spent some of those four days reloading (K)ubuntu on my laptop. I decided to do this because I first learned how to use Ubuntu on Dapper just before Edgy was released, and had upgraded twice to Feisty. I made some mistakes in the initial loading process that I just could not resolve that cost me abilities to use some w32codecs-related media. So after wisdom from 8 months of use and improved packages I reloaded. My system is an HP dv8000 laptop that comes with two hardware difficulties. The first is ATI XPress 200M graphics. FGLRX has come a long way in the past 8 months. The other is the BCM4318 Air Force One wireless. The BCM43xx module is too flaky with this card, so I went to NDISWrapper. NDISWrapper was not so hard to get working, but Network Manager just would not play well. I eventually got nm to work ok, but never got my wireless to start immediately at boot. So off to the Ubuntu forums I went. Someone on the forums--I think Compwiz18--posted about a networking tool called WICD. It is a replacement for nm that is built in Python. Here is the sourceforge website: <a href="http://wicd.sourceforge.net/pages/features.php">http://wicd.sourceforge.net/pages/features.php</a> Let me tell you that for the past 8 months I spent hours on nm to get it to run properly--and only partly succeeded. WICD, however, was set up in 15 minutes and working perfectly out of the box--it is a Debian package. I suspect that many of Ubuntu/Kubuntu users out there would like to trade in nm for something better: well here is an opportunity to investigate. Oh, and BTW, my w32codecs-related media issues are completely resolved. I also switched to Firefox from Konqueror, it simply works better on a couple key websites I visit. Now I am less dependent on M$--and that is a good thing in my estimation. Larry -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com </a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>