There is something broken with Kubuntu and the network manager plasmoid in Jaunty with 4.3beta and also in karmic. I think its a Kubuntu issue rather than a generic kde thing. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:41 AM, B.W.H. van Beest<bwvb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I had something similar. In my case, having both the wired and the > wireless active caused the problem. the "solution" was: > a) use the traditional ifup/ifdown method instead of (K)NetworkManager > (the latter one has never worked for me ....) > b) explicitly disable the wireless (e.g. ifdown wlan0; ifup eth0) when > using the wired connection, and explicitly disable the wired when using > the wireless, > (e.g. ifdown eth0; ifup wlan0) > > This is not as seamless as it should. But for me it worked at least. > > Good luck > Bertwim > > Steve Brettell wrote: >> I am running Jaunty Jackalope on a Toshiba Laptop. In Gnome, I have >> no problem hooking up to my wireless network. In KDE, I can't hook up >> no matter what I try. Wired works just fine, but the inconvenience is >> causing me to not use KDE. >> >> Can anyone suggest a solution to this? I would like to use wireless, >> and I would like it to work as seamlessly as in Gnome. >> >> > > ___________________________________________________ > This message is from the kde mailing list. > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.