regarding network manager

[NoOp]

On 12/18/2008 08:28 AM, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> I tried removing network manager with sudo apt-get remove 
> network-manager, and the menu item under system->administration or 
> system->preferences for configuring networking also disappeared.

As it should. The util is: nm-connection-editor
And if you do a 'locate nm-connection-editor' you find that it is no
longer there.

It is part of the network-manager-gnome package:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/i386/network-manager-gnome/filelist
  http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/network-manager-gnome
> 
> This was on a fresh install of 8.10; can anyone confirm that GUI tools 
> for network configuration are totally dependent on network-manager being 
> installed? I removed it because of troubles getting a static network 
> configuration to work.

Install wicd; you can then use a gui to configure both wired and
wireless. It's included in Jaunty:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/wicd
but for Hardy & Intrepid use:

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
  http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php
http://apt.wicd.net/

For Intrepid, just change the sources.list to:

deb http://apt.wicd.net intrepid extras