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ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

wireless with kde4?

well, i was used to the knetwork manager. now i have kdemod4 on both my systems, laptop and desktop

knetworkmanager doesnt seem to work on the laptop, i've reinstalled it, but seems as if its not even there

any suggestions on wirelss clients?

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whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: wireless with kde4?

Netcfg2 should work pretty well.

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iainwillis

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Registered: 2008-07-30

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Re: wireless with kde4?

WICD is pretty good.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: wireless with kde4?

isnt wicd the one thats in faunos? im not a huge fan of it, but looking at some of the details, i guess with a few less daemons in startup, my laptop might boot up quicker, which would be handy.

i suppose i could get used to it if since i know it`ll do what i need

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ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

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Re: wireless with kde4?

well, i installed wicd...... changed my daemon settings, rebooted, and it worked.........

but then i added the autostart, did another reboot, now wicd doesn't work anymore. if i try to open it, it flashes for a second, and goes away

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COMMUNISTCHINA

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Registered: 2008-06-16

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Re: wireless with kde4?

Could give Network Manager a shot.

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EnvoyRising

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Registered: 2008-08-08

Posts: 118

Re: wireless with kde4?

Arch Assistant is written in Qt4 (which is what kde4 uses), so it may look better on your system. I use it and like it. It even comes with an instant connection wizard.

ArchAssistant downloads are available on the ArchWiki as binary, AUR, and source.

Last edited by EnvoyRising (2008-08-08 09:26:57)

QuimaxW

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From: Papua New Guinea

Registered: 2006-12-03

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Re: wireless with kde4?

When I was using KDEmod 4, I found that I had to type the complete path in to get knetworkmanager to start. I believe it was in like /usr/bin/kde or something.

Once I ran it once, it started on it own every time I logged in. I believe the version in our repos is still using the kde 3 libraries, but it worked for me.

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ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: wireless with kde4?

maybe ill try that with knetworkmanager. it worked fine on my desktop without doing that. but my desktop is running 64bit, ill try it on my 32bit install on my laptop. if that fails, maybe ill give arch assistent a try since wicd is giving me grief.

i dont miss windows since i switched, but a new linux install takes so much more fine tuning

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ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: wireless with kde4?

cool, archassistant is working. took me a couple tries *beer*, but its working. little more than i wanted, but its al good

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ssbfalcon

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From: Long Island, New York

Registered: 2008-08-01

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Re: wireless with kde4?

Heh, I just used /etc/rc.d/network and iwconfig via the terminal.  I'll try ArchAssistant to simplify things...