On Thursday 25 March 2010 03.56:02 Matthew Tedder wrote:
> I really wish I could find a distro with kde 4.x that can establish
> wireless connections.. KNetworkManager doesn't work on either of my
> computers no matter how I try to use it.
Works for me on one laptop, doesn't on the other, and I can't find the
difference. So it seems to be very fragile indeed.
One thing that has helped is editing the nm related files in
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/ and duplicating the sections marked with
at_console="true" with group="netdev" instead of the at_console stuff (and
making sure that your user actually is in group netdev). Only restarting nm
hasn't helped, it took a reboot for this to work.
And: with nm your /etc/network/interfaces should only configure the "lo"
interface and not mention the real network interfaces at all.
> Others tell me they used wicd
> or something else but I cannot get any of those alternatives
(I'd have looked at alternatives, but I haven't found one that also did
PPTP, which is why I'm still using and struggling with nm)
> working
> because it takes too long to work through figuring out all their
> dependencies one by one and porting them over by USB disk..
Matthew, meet apt-zip. apt-zip, meet Matthew. It can automate this task.
(Disclaimer: haven't used it myself, I always could arrange for network
connections to be available for package installations.)
> I've been stuck forced to use gnome for quite a long while now waiting
> for kde 4.x to become usable... It's become very clear that there are a
> lot of kde refugees like me out there... really a lot of them. I've
> been an avid kde user since version 1... FVWM, prior to that starting
> with Slackware96. It's been the biggest tragedy in computer history, for
> me..
KDE 4 has been ok since 4.1, and completely usable for my purposes since 4.2
or 4.3. I'd say 4.4 is looking quite ok, although Strigi/Nepomuk still
gobble way too much memory (my 1GB Atom netbook is not usable after a few
hours with nepomuk/strigi running.) All in all, it would be nice if the KDE
developers would remember that KDE is a platform and the real work is done
usinng applications on that platform. Nobody spends all their day
playingaround with plasma widgets... Ok, this gets waaaay OT...
cheers
-- vbi
--
Why on earth should we teach children
that they are not allowed to share the toys.
-- Patrick Harvie, Member of the Scottish Parliament
Speaking at Debconf7
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