You are not logged in.

#1 2010-02-13 00:23:10

shep
Member
Registered: 2009-08-04
Posts: 33

Network Manager

I have a fresh install of KDE4 to an Acer Netbook which I plan to use for travel.  My home wireless network uses WPA2.
I would like to be able to connect to 4 networks
   1)  My own WPA2 network - this will see the most use
   2)  Open unencrypted networks like at coffee shops, hotel, airports etc.
   3)  My own wired network (I like doing large upgrades on a connection that does not renew it's lease as frequently as WPA2)
   4)  Occasionally a friends WEP network

It looks like my options are netcfg, wicd and I found mention of a KDE based manager which was last updated in 2008.
I have set up another Arch system with WPA2   with wpa.supplicant and I had to modify /etc/rc.d/network as follows to get the ath5k driver to work
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=67051

I fiddled with netcfg about 5 month ago but was unsuccessful
Any recommendations/links to howto's on which way to go?  Anyone know if /etc/rc.d/network is used by netcfg and or wicd?

Thanks in advance

Offline

#2 2010-02-13 04:40:55

brianhanna
Member
Registered: 2009-10-30
Posts: 157

Re: Network Manager

Last I looked, knetworkmanager was still not ready so I've been using wicd with KDE 4.  I haven't tried it with WPA2 though.

Offline

#3 2010-02-19 15:39:28

steven
Member
Registered: 2007-07-17
Posts: 56

Re: Network Manager

The following will install knetworkmanager

pacman -S kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement

Make sure you have the networkmanager daemon loading. In /etc/rc.conf and you've disabled your network from starting on boot.

# ! stops them from starting on boot
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)

DAEMONS=( ... dbus hal networkmanager ... )

(the ellipses ... represent other stuff you've got in there).

Now:

as SU / root:
# /etc/rc.d/networkmanager start

as your normal user:
$ knetworkmanager

Configure to your hearts desire. smile

Offline

Board footer

Powered by FluxBB