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Re: [kubuntu-kde3.5-users] WLAN and KDE5

From: Stefan Endrullis <stefan@...>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:10:26 +0200
Jochen Vortkamp schrieb:
>> Jochen Vortkamp schrieb:
>>>>> Hi.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't get it to bring my Kubuntu 9.04 with KDE4.5 in the
>> WLAN-Network.
>>>>> In KDE4 it works fine.
>>>>> Under KDE3.5, i tried it wirh the knetworkmanager. When i klick on the
>>>>> connection I add, nothing happen.
>>>>> I doesn't matterwhen i change the authorisation in the router to
>> WEP/WPA
>>>>> or nothing.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for my bad english.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetz
>>>>> Jochen
>>>>> --
>>>> Hi Jochen,
>>>>
>>>> Try Gnome's nm-applet instead.  The old knetworkmanager tray icon is
>>>> hopelessly broken.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>
>>> Thank you very much! It worked great!
>>> And also thanks for your wonderfull work. Don't know how to have fun
>> under Ubuntu-Linux without KDE3.5 ;-)
>>> Jochen
>> Hi Jochen,
>>
>> alternatively you can use wicd (http://wicd.sourceforge.net/) if you want
>> to have a better configurability.
>>
>> Stefan
> 
> 
> Hi Stefan.
> 
> the tool looks very nice.
> But i cant connect to my WPA2 Secured Network. No Matter what i choose under Preferences -> General Settings -> WPA Supplicant Driver.
> My WLAN controller is "Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)" and i installed the driver with "sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter"
> 
> 
> Jochen

Hi Jochen,

if your WLAN worked well with nm-applet then you don't have to install a new driver in order to get wicd running, I think.

The only "problem" of wicd I noticed is the lack of good WPA templates. In my special case I also had to write my own WPA template. If you
know how your wpa_supplicant configuration has to look like, then it's easy to create a corresponding template for wicd.

Stefan