Howdy All,

So I've recently started using KDE over gnome on my main system (much prefer it now) and the only thing that is holding me back is that my wifi card cannot seem to connect to my home router using Knetwork manager regardless of the distro I use.

I've tried Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Sabayon, Chakra, and all of them fail to connect to the router. The exact same wifi card connects fine to this same router using the Gnome nm-applet... Any suggestions on what I can do to resolve the issue other than using nm-applet?

The lspci output from the card is

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06:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)


Open to suggestions,
~Jeff Hoogland

A specific wireless card or driver shouldn't cause KNetworkManager any problems... have you checked the entered settings (especially the security settings) when you try to connect KNetworkManager to your network?

bcooksley wrote:A specific wireless card or driver shouldn't cause KNetworkManager any problems... have you checked the entered settings (especially the security settings) when you try to connect KNetworkManager to your network?

Any particular things I should look for in the settings? As far as I can tell it is set to the proper encryption type.

Also I've tried settings my router to WPA and WEP and both fail.

My wifi works fine under KDE at my place of work though... Thus I am fairly certain it is an issue with something in the Knetwork manager.

~Jeff

Have you tried deleting the network settings for your home network and recreating them?

bcooksley wrote:Have you tried deleting the network settings for your home network and recreating them?

Several times. Other ideas?

~Jeff

Does it work under a new user?

bcooksley wrote:Does it work under a new user?

Also tried doing a clean install of the operating system. Neither where successful. Guess I need to start compiling Gnome and it's dependencies so nm-applet can work

~Jeff

Can you post a link of how KNetworkManager appears when right clicked? Do you use KDE 4.5?

Hi,

I have been trying to get the KDE Network Manager to work for three days now. I have tried OpenSuse 10.3, Fedora 13 and Kubuntu 10.04. All have the same problem. In other words the nework manager is broken. If you install wicd or nm-applet they work fine, however the only way I could do this was to install both gnome and KDE on OpenSuse and install the extra software through Gnome (KDE Network manager broke the ethernet connection as well). I am running a Samsung nc10. Come on KDE get this fixed! KDE 4 is otherwise very good. However this problem is preventing me from switching from Gnome.

Are you using the Network Management applet or "KNetworkManager". openSUSE 11.3 shipped with the Network Management applet I believe, and the applet is where future development is focused. Users of KDE 4.5.0 and later can only use the applet, KNetworkManager is broken in it and following releases.

So I've been having the same problem. I've googled this issue multiple times and I seem to have tried just about everything. My wireless card works great in Gnome, but in KDE I can't get it to work at all. I've even tried uninstalling/reinstalling the KDE Network Manager, using the Gnome one, etc. etc. Nothing has worked.

Is there any kind of walk through guide on this? From browsing the forums, it seems like there are tons of people having this problem.

Hope someone can help as I would really like to try KDE.

Thanks,

Bones.

In general, the Plasma Applet should work fine, assuming Network Manager itself can use the card. Which Network Manager client or Desktop Environment shouldn't have an effect.

Thanks for the reply. I'm using a desktop computer with a D-Link DWA-552 Xtreme N PCI card. I have had absolutely no problems with Gnome; but KDE has never successfully connected to my encrypted network.

The network manager sees all of the networks, but won't connect to them. I've checked the settings in Gnome and made sure the settings are identical in KDE and they are. I've uninstalled/reinstalled KDE; Double checked the password; re-downloaded the network manager; uninstalled it again; installed WICD (which works in Gnome; not KDE).

Really, really odd.

As far as I am aware, the behaviour you are observing should be completely impossible. I suspect a different application is interfering in the configuration of NetworkManager causing Wicd to be overridden.

Please run the following, then try with nm-applet/wicd:

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killall -9 knetworkmanager
qdbus org.kde.kded /kded unloadModule networkmanagement

Thank you for the reply. I did the above and it is now just stuck at "Obtaining IP address" with an ultimate error message of "Connection Failure. Unable to Get IP Address."

Any other suggestions?