Hello there,

just upgraded to kubuntu 9.04 and found that I have a connectivity problem now.

The new plasmoid applet is nice ... but it doesn't support LEAP (what we have at our company). So that's a no-go for me.

So I installed the Knetworkmanager (ver. 0.7). Works good enough at the office.

So I decided to use it for my home WLAN too. And I found:
when specifying my connection as I would need it (WEP key + manual IP config) ...
it simply doesn't work. It took me some time to realise: if I setup my WLAN
router as DHCP host and omit the manual IP config ... connection works.

Problem is: DHCP wont tell my Linux box the IP address for the default gateway;
so I can connect to the WLAN box, but not to the internet

I wrote a bug report (wondering if this will be fixed anyway) ... and I might
take this as a hint to rework my home WLAN to use WPA at least. Thus,
my real question is: anyone out there using

knetworkmanager + WPA + manual config ???

(as I really dont want to update the config for my several machines at home
to find that this combo would be broken too).

Unfortunately, KNetworkManager is broken in many aspects, and one of them is manual IP addresses ( KNetworkManager is very buggy ). If you try enough times, it will likely work eventually. It is very picky about settings and saving configurations, and is unlikely to have any of its bugs fixed.

If possible, I would recommend switching to an alternate network manager such as Wicd.

bcooksley wrote:If possible, I would recommend switching to an alternate network manager such as Wicd.

Just found that Wicd wont LEAP into our companies WLAN (it works for
other people).

Back to nm-applet then. Maybe the next version of the plasmoid applet
will support all my needs.