I'm fairly new to the world of Kubuntu. I recently upgraded from version 8.10 to 9.04. I was having trouble connecting to my wireless internet and in trying some solution I found on the web I somehow seem to have "deleted" the Network Management widget! It's not available in the "Add Widgets" dialog and I can't seem to find any other way of configuring my internet connections.

I went to System Setting -> Add and Remove Software and tried to install the network-manager-kde and plasma-widget-network-manager packages. I get an error saying "Unknown error - System Settings. Details: network-manager-kde was not installed." Without any further details.
The same happens for networkstatus and plasma-widget-network-manager. They do not get installed.

I have the libqt4-network, network-manager and network-manager-gnome installed.

When I try to install these packages through the Konsole using this command: sudo aptitude install network-manager-kde it says "No candidate version found for network-manager-kde"

Help?!

I'm using KDE version 4.2.2

Thanks!

Hi, you want wicd which I believe is in the repos now, ergo:

sudo apt-get install wicd

It is a superior network manager in that it works. Simple as that.

Thanks toad! I was trying to install wicd initially and encountered various problems. That's why I was trying to get back to the plasma widget as it had worked for me at one point.

So I think my system is really messed up. I tried "sudo apt-get install wicd" and it gives me an error "E: Couldn't find package wicd".

I think it might be dependency issues. I feel like i've mucked it up too much. Should I just reinstall?

I managed to install wicd from the deb file and it was successful. I can't get it to run on Kubuntu though. I go to KMenu-> Internet-> Wicd Network Manager and when I click on it, it looks like it is launching it but nothing happens.

Am I missing some other setting?!

greatly appreciate the help!

You may need to start the service. I do not know if Ubuntu has a services manager of any description, but be sure to stop the NetworkManager service when you start the Wicd service, since they will conflict.

I was finally able to get Wicd working... I followed the instructions on this post. The problem was that I downloaded the deb from SourceForge instead of the Jaunty's repository. The sourceforge deb file installs it in the incorrect python version folder.

Thanks for all the help!