Upgrade problems 7.10 > 8.04 LTS

[Nils Kassube]

Rick Knight wrote:
> > On 08/19/2008 11:03 AM, Rick Knight wrote:
> >> My wireless does work, but only when I start it manually with this
> >> command...
> >>
> >> $ sudo wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> >> $sudo dhclient eth1
> >>
> >> Prior to the upgrade to 8.04, my wireless started automatically.
>
> I removed Knemo and installed network-manager-kde and knetwork-manager.
> Now my networking is working at startup in Kdesktop and in terminal
> mode. Wireless still needs to be started manually with wpa_supplicant
> and dhclient. Any way to automate this in 8.04
>
> BTW I installed 8.04 with KDE3, not KDE4.

In /etc/network/interfaces there should be no reference to your wireless 
interface, otherwise knetworkmanager doesn't care about your wireless. If 
you change that file, remember to restart your networking afterwards, and 
maybe restart knetworkmanager also.

If you right click on the knetworkmanager icon in your system tray, have a 
look at the options entry. There is an item to enable or disable wireless 
interfaces - it should be enabled of course. Then right click the icon 
again, and you should see a line with your network. Click on that line to 
connect to your network. Then there should be a popup window asking for 
the network password. When the network is connected, the password will be 
stored in your kwallet - it will ask for a new password, if you haven't 
used it before. On the next login, if your wireless interface is switched 
on and your network is found, you will be asked for the kwallet password 
to enable knetworkmanager to fetch the wireless password and then it 
should connect to the network. At least that's how it works for me.

Furthermore could you tell us what wireless interface you are using? Maybe 
there is a problem specific to that hardware together with 
knetworkmanager.

Other than that, there is Wicd <http://wicd.sourceforge.net/> which some 
people prefer over knetworkmanager.


Nils