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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
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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.
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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.
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