Wireless/network connection GUIs

[chombee]

Okay, so the new network-manager we have in Ubuntu now is great, but it
doesn't work with every wireless card. I do lots of Ubuntu installs for
people new to computers or moving from Windows, and fairly often their
wireless card doesn't work with network-manager. So I leave them with
the old System->Administration->Network, which is really not very good,
it's confusing and difficult and slow and infuriating.

There are lots of applications out there that make connecting to
networks quicker and easier. Does Xubuntu have a network manager it
uses? What about Kubuntu? Does anyone have any other recommendations?

What I'm looking for is something that will:

* Manage wireless connections in a quick and easy way like
network-manager
* Ideally manage wired connections too
* Work with all network cards that work at all with Ubuntu, or at least
work with more than network-manager does.

I collected the following list of potentials from Add/Remove
Applications and Gnomefiles, so if there are any recommendations for any
of these or something else that'd be great. If I can find a suitable app
I think I can make a number of users happy.

Thanks

* Wireless Assistant "User friendly KDE frontend for wireless network
connection"

* Kwifimanager "wireless lan manager for KDE"

* wifi-radar "graphical utility for managing Wi-Fi profiles"

* Network Selector "User-friendly network interface control applet"

* KNetworkManager "User friendly KDE frontend for NetworkManager". This
seems to use the same backend as the standard network-manager applet, so
I guess it only works for the same cards.

* Kwlan "wpasupplicant frontend for KDE"

* GWireless "GWireless is a simplist utility for managing wifi 802.11x
wireless connections on FreeBSD and Linux."

* Network Configurator "Network configuration tool"

* Wireless Applet "Applet for the GNOME Panel displaying available
wireless networks with the ability to add a listed network to the system
configuration easily. Brings the comfort of NetworkManager to
wpa_supplicant users. Supports WEP, WPA-PSK, and open wireless
networks."

* wlan-ui "wlan-ui is a very small Linux GUI tool for connecting to
wireless networks"