[kde-linux] KWifiManager ?

[Dr. Edgar Alwers]

On Sunday 11 October 2009 16:00:44 you wrote:
>
> Did your run:
>
> autoreconf -f -i
>
> after applying the patch?

Hi James,

no, I did not. After doing so, I got an error message. Then, I simple started 
a ./configure  again. This time, I got a message, "no package 'libnl-1' 
found.". I downloaded "libnl-1.0-pre6" and built it. "make" fails with an 
error "in function __str2type ULONG_MAX not declared". No idea what this 
means.

I then went to compile "wicd-1.6.2.2"  The compilation with "pyython" seems to 
be OK. Calling the program, however, results in a runtime error " no module 
named gobject". Searching for "gobject", I got the information, that this 
module is beeing installed by gtk-2. OK, I had already installed GTK-2 some 
weeks ago, so  I do not know what could be now wrong here.

After this experiences, I just decided to install the good old "kwifimanager" 
from KDE-3.5, what solved my problems and is working smootly..

It was interesting for me to see last Saturday, on a PC equiped with SuSE 11, 
that the SuSE people are also using the kde-3.5  kwifimanager.

It seems, that KDE-4 has at this time not a practicable own solution for the 
management of wireless communications.  No problem, as KDE-3.5 will help. but 
this is another one of this little issues that are still making kde-4 nasty.

Anyway, thank you very much to all who have helped with hints, comments etc. I 
learned a lot in the past days.

Edgar

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Dr. Edgar Alwers
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