Wireless/network connection GUIs

[Paul Tansom]

** Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> [2007-10-02 17:18]:
> 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.

Hmm, I'll have to take another look at it then. It seemed to do quite
well when in Gnome, bar not being able to get a wireless connection, but
that's likely not directly related. I did think it was part of the Gnome
project and therefore relied on a selection of Gnome libraries - due to
the URL I guess: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

> >> 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.

I'll have to have a good solid go at getting wireless working in Linux.
The only one I have working is a Linksys PCI card in a desktop that is
natively supported including wpa - it doesn't appear that I've the same
luck with the USB and PCMCIA cards :(
** end quote [Derek Broughton]

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