Hi Claudius, hi everyone, Am Sonntag, 12. Februar 2012 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > >Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm > >(i3 at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various > >functions that the Gnome DE does in the background (hides from the > >user) so that I can replace the Gnome-related-software to software > >which is desktop independent. > > Network Manager per se is not connected to Gnome and runs just fine > with XFCE, KDE and even from the command line (you will have to > create connections manually, though).
No, at least not for KDE. Just use plasma-widget-networkmanagement which in the meanwhile became quite nice. The version in wheezy/sid is nicer than in squeeze. But the same is true for network manager it self. Network Manager 0.9 was the first version that I really found usable. Before I tried wicd sometimes, but either the KDE/GTK guis of it did not respond to clicks or wicd did some wierd misconfiguration - AFAIR it changed hostname to what was told by DHCP which is an absolute no-go to me since it breaks DBUS and more. After that last occurence I ditched wicd faster than you can spell apt-get purge - so to say. (I had this with earlier versions of network-manager as well, I purged it quite a lot.;) Network Manager 0.9+ is fine for me. It connects to every WLAN I thrown at it, including the WPA PSK RADIUS - insert some more bull^W^W^W acronyms to make you happy - whatnot WLAN at work. I simply put in the data I was told to use for authentification and it worked out of the box. And at a customer it was just the same, told data and it worked. That wasn´t that consistently the case for me with earlier versions of network manager. Heck, Network Manager 0.9+ even retries DHCP several times which helps while my ASUS WL-500g Premium router boots Debian from the USB-Stick after it loaded the Linux kernel from internal flash - for some reasons that sometimes takes longer. So this new version of Network Manager was really a pleasant surprise to me as I disliked previous versions quite much. First time I do not need to know how it works. Like in K3b for CD/DVD burning and copying ;). Only thing I did have some issue was OpenVPN, but I only tried it once and maybe I misconfigured it. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201202142303.03641.mar...@lichtvoll.de
