Wireless/network connection GUIs

[Adam McGreggor]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:52:10PM +0100, chombee wrote:
> 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.

How about good old-fashioned $EDITOR and /etc/network/interfaces ?

(I've seen quite a few people having problems with this network-manager;
I've never had a need/want to use it.)

A collection of comments in my interfaces file remind me of which
set-up/keys I need; it's just a case of ifdown, vi, ifup, and away I go,
when I need to.