Wireless/network connection GUIs

[Derek Broughton]

Paul Tansom wrote:

> ** chombee <chombee at nerdshack.com> [2007-10-02 14:01]:
>> 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? 

"Network manager" is a daemon that doesn't care about your desktop, so it
runs on all of them.  Then there's an NM applet for each of Gnome & KDE
which provides the front end.

>> Does anyone have any other recommendations? 

None that really improve anything...  They all seem to have their benefits
and drawbacks.  I tried everything I could find when I started having
trouble with NM, and now I'm back to NM.
-- 
derek