I'm running Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Beta 2.  Seriously... every install I've
done since Jaunty has taken me literally HOURS to get network
connectivity to behave - first because my wired network is configured in
/etc/network/interfaces as "manual" so KNetworkManager can't see it, and
then because wireless won't connect to my AP (128-bit WEP, shared key,
using a string instead of hex), and last because I don't know how the
heck to get it so that I have a network connection before anyone's
logged in!

Eventually I remember to edit /etc/network/interfaces, and then
eventually I remember that I need to enter the WEP key in hex (even
though it claims string will work)... but I've never found a solution
for this one.

Think of it like this: *ubuntu has become kinda synonymous with "desktop
Linux" these days.  Stuff like networking being broken "out of the box"
is part of why people keep talking like "wait, no, *this* is the year of
the Linux desktop...!"  Until a clean install Just Works(tm) for the
vast majority of people, it ain't that year yet.

(All that said, this is IMHO one of the only things left preventing
that...)

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plasma-widget-network-manager: can't create System Connections
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