Wireless Internet

[Andrew Mason]

There is something broken with Kubuntu and the network manager
plasmoid in Jaunty with 4.3beta and also in karmic. I think its a
Kubuntu issue rather than a generic kde thing.



On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:41 AM, B.W.H. van Beest<bwvb at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I had something similar. In my case, having both the wired and the
> wireless active caused the problem. the "solution" was:
> a)  use the traditional ifup/ifdown method instead of (K)NetworkManager
> (the latter one has never worked for me ....)
> b) explicitly disable the wireless (e.g. ifdown wlan0; ifup eth0) when
> using the wired connection, and explicitly disable the wired when using
> the wireless,
>     (e.g. ifdown eth0; ifup wlan0)
>
> This is not as seamless as it should. But for me it worked at least.
>
> Good luck
> Bertwim
>
> Steve Brettell wrote:
>> I am running Jaunty Jackalope on a Toshiba Laptop.  In Gnome, I have
>> no problem hooking up to my wireless network.  In KDE, I can't hook up
>> no matter what I try.  Wired works just fine, but the inconvenience is
>> causing me to not use KDE.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a solution to this?  I would like to use wireless,
>> and I would like it to work as seamlessly as in Gnome.
>>
>>
>
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