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Hi,<br>
Without being negative, I am one of more than 90% of computer users
who do not know the ins and outs of configuring devices, nor how to
find the required information for configurations, nor what packages
to load (which is an Opensuse issue and perhaps you can please pass
this onto them as I cannot get the Bug Reporting thing working).<br>
<br>
I have a successful install of OpenSuse 13.2 RC1 on HP PorBook
6540B. During the install, without enternet cable attached the
wireless was auot configured (which is what I was hoping for). After
first boot, KDE's Network manager has disabled wireless and I cannot
get it working. Here are some issues.<br>
<br>
The YAST Network setting dialogue no longer has IFUP, it depend on
KDE's Network manager to auto-configure and switch between cable and
wireless automatically.<br>
<br>
The help dialogue on the internet instructs one to use KDE <i>Main
Menu, System Settings, Network and Connectivity, etc</i>. Sadly,
this item <i>Network and Connectivity</i> is not available. So I
used Configure Desktop, Network Settings and that doesn't make any
sense to a computer illiterate like me. I opened the KDE help
manual, got to KNetAttach, which also doesnt help as I am unable to
get the information required. Consequently, I am unable to proceed
further.<br>
<br>
Wireless internet is my only option with this laptop as I do not
have a cable connection at work. Hence, it is why I still have a
windows operating system as it connects wirelessly to the outside
world. In my opinion, there are three major issues why people do not
convert to Linux:<br>
<br>
1. Audio players that do not automount the cd drive: Amarok never
has on my computers. I have to use K3b to rip the audio to hard
drive. Amarok has resolved the codec issue.<br>
2. There are issue surrounding KDE applications when KDE is a new
version and the current applications aren't available for the new
version.<br>
3. The automatic internet connections. Clearly, this is still a
problem as shown above.<br>
<br>
It is important to understand that the majority of computer users
use windows precisely because the fundamental applications, office
suite, audio and video players, internet browsers and mail work
without the need to manually configure them. Why KDE and the Linux
variants haven't resolved this issue defies common sense, because if
they did, they would put themselves on the OS market in a huge
financial way. For the record, my main use of Linux is XFig and
TexMaker, email and <b>internet</b>, Octave, <b>music</b>, videos
and photos. From this you can see where the issues lie. Texstudio,
which seems to clone TexMaker is available for windows, but XFig
insn't.<br>
<br>
While Netwrok Manager is intended to resolve the issue raised here:
automatic configuration and switching of wireless/cable internet
connection, for some reason it hasn't. All the availalbe help
instructions fail, because we don't know the required information
and the menu times in both KDE and Opensuse's Yast have changed. You
cannot seriously expect 90% of the worlds population to learn how to
configure KDE and Linux OS, although some will. <br>
<br>
Thankyou for taking the time to read this and I really hope you
address the issues.<br>
Regards.<br>
Graham<br>
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