<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hello all,<br>on my toshiba laptop I was having a hard time setting up wireless networking.<br>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.<br>But I needed long time until it finally worked and now don't know, why I got the final success.<br>It was installation of 10.10 Maverick and the problem wasn't the driver, ipw2200, which was loaded and enabled scanning of networks.<br>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).<br><br>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)<br>I finally got it setup, but without knowing, why it's working.<br><br>Therefore the question: is there any way of installing, that is nearly fail-proof and managing wireless LANs through GUI ?<br>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.<br>Which packages are needed for installing wireless-management, like the nm-applet (i found within another installation) is doing?<br><br>thanx for replying<br>michael<br></div> </div><br> </body></html>