Re: Bug#699094: UPGRADE-REPORTS: Squeeze to Wheezy KDE WiFi managment
Julien Cristau wrote:
>> When upgrading from squeeze to wheezy WiFi stopped working.
>> This was because the KNetworkManager has been dropped, and replaced with
>> Plasma-widget-networkmanagment.
>> Adding the new network managment widget into the system tray enabled
>> wireless networking to finction again, however the upgrade probably should
>> have migrated to the new widget automaticly
>> Recomendation - an advisory note be genorated for the release notes to warn
>> about the possible loss of wireless networking in KDE and how to resolve
>> the issue.
> Can I get a comment from the Qt/KDE people here? Is this loss of
> connectivity expected as part of the upgrade?
It's not really expected, knetworkmanager was already somewhat deprecated back
in squeeze in favor of plasma-widget-networkmanager, that is kde-standard
recommends it, and upon upgrade, network-manager-kde installs the replacement.
I think the reason its not added is due to a session that might have the pwnm
disabled, so it won't be added in the panel even after removing
knetworkmanager. But I haven't really tested this.
So, yes, please, could you add a paragraph about it?
Something in the lines:
"should you be using the deprecated knetworkmanager standalone application,
you should be prepared to do some manual configuration afterwards, since in a
KDE Plasma Workspace managing of networks has been taken over by plasma-
widget-networkmangement. On a upgrade, you need to manually add plasma-widget-
networkmanagement to your panel, desktop or where you would like to see such a
thing"
(thanks to sune for the text)
Also, it might be a good idea to set the conections as a system connection, so
the network connection doesn't depend on having a network-manager widget
running.
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