[kde-linux] KWifiManager ?

[Werner Joss]

Am Thursday 08 October 2009 22:55:28 schrieb Dr. Edgar Alwers:
> after building KDE-4.3.0 I am trying to do the same on my laptop. I had to
> realize, that kdenetwork do not more include a KWifiManager, as kde-3.5
> did. What shall we do ? googling, I found, that a Network-Manager in solid
> was to be announced ( Aug. 2008 ). Later, some comments indicates the
> existence of a widget, that takes over the tasks of KWifiManager. However,
> the only thing I found in the add widgets plasma was a network usage
> monitor.
> No  question, I can continue using my old  kwifimanager and my old wpa-
> supplicant  from kde-3.5 to perform my communications. But is this the
> kde-4 solution ? As I do not think so, can somebody tell me more or less
> what steps I shall do ?

I recommend to give wicd - http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ a try, works much 
better than any kde based wifimanager I've ever come around.

werner