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The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 26, 2006 8:39 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)
Parent article: The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Thanks for this article. I had heard something vague about NM earlier, but since I don't have a Linux laptop, didn't know where it really was going. This is badly needed, and in fact someting where we have been behind Windows XP for years.

Now then... was there a KDE equivalent somewhere?

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Posted Jan 26, 2006 9:13 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I use kwifimanager for the wireless stuff. It's not complete or even very
pretty, but quite functional enough for my uses.

The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 26, 2006 19:28 UTC (Thu) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link]

I can't seem to get kwifi (on Mandriva 2006) to remember my networks. I connect to two networks that don't broadcast the SSID. Both windows and Palm OS put those in the SSID list and try to connect to them when they can't find a network. I can't get KWifi to do the same thing.

The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 26, 2006 13:35 UTC (Thu) by jayavarman (subscriber, #19600) [Link]

The NM daemon itself is completly desktop independent. As such user GUIs to control it can be built independently. It seems someone at SUSE is working on a KDE part:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2005-N...

The GNOME NetworkManager Applet

Posted Jan 26, 2006 13:43 UTC (Thu) by ecureuil (subscriber, #3507) [Link]

The KDE hacker Kevin Ottens plans to add a KDE frontend to the Gnome
Network Manager.

http://ervin.ipsquad.net/index.php/2005/09/22/34-network-...