issues with wireless networking nad managing

[Michael Meier]

Hello all,
on my toshiba laptop I was having a hard time setting up wireless networking.
I had tried before with live-CD Knoppix, debian / kde based, where it worked 
instantly and thus was thinking, ubuntu will manage this also out-of-the-box.
But I needed long time until it finally worked and now don't know, why I got the 
final success.
It was installation of 10.10 Maverick and the problem wasn't the driver, 
ipw2200, which was loaded and enabled scanning of networks.
Problem was caused by the network-management-gui, that mostly didn't work (and I 
need the gui, since I'm frequently changing the wireless-environment).

Before I mostly used the KWifimanager with Debian, but couldn't manage WPA and 
seems to be expired. Now there are applets available, but they come without 
hints, how to set them up - they rside somewhere within the system, while the 
controlpanels don't know about them (that was my experience with nm-applet)
I finally got it setup, but without knowing, why it's working.

Therefore the question: is there any way of installing, that is nearly 
fail-proof and managing wireless LANs through GUI ?
May I set it up without an "all-inclusive" installationprocess of ubuntu / 
kubuntu? I'd like to have a system without a mass of toys, that I don't need, 
that's fitting on a DVD to backup.
Which packages are needed for installing wireless-management, like the nm-applet 
(i found within another installation) is doing?

thanx for replying
michael



      
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