Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 August 2008 06:53:31 pm you wrote:
> Kai Ponte wrote:
> > On Sunday 03 August 2008 02:13:35 pm James Pifer wrote:
> > > > Have you installed Knetworkmanager?
> > >
> > > I installed and I'll see how it works.
> >
> > It isn't nearly as good as the utility i've seen with vista but it is
> > more or less functional.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it has little in the way of information *about* any given
> > network - security/pass or fail/reliability. It will also sometimes show
> > a network then not depending on the phase of the moon.
>
> Hi,
> I am not sure what version of suse you are using.  The knetworkmanager
> on 10.3 works pretty well, 

"Pretty Well" is about what I'd say, too. I am on 10.3 and have had 
KNetworkmanager on laptops since 9.3.  In most cases it seems do okay. Oddly 
enough, though, I'll have a sudden drop in the connection, followed by the 
inability to reconnect. 

Often - when at home - my laptops will suddenly decide to connect to a 
neighbor's network.

I gave up trying to not broadcast my SSID at work or home because 
KNetworkmanager can't seem to maintain itself.

> In fact I am in Penang Malaysia in the 
> airport and hooked up to the wireless net here with it. 

I've done the same in various airports and even outside the gym, when I've 
forgotten something.

> I was 
> demonstrating the difference to someone here between  Windows and Linux
> and couldn't get connected with windows vista, but suse and
> knetworkmanager got me connected right away.  Hooray!
>
> I have an old laptop at home that I made out of two broken laptops, and
> recently installed suse 11.0 on it.  I found that the knetworkmanager
> doesn't work well, nor will it show the active networks or their signal
> strength properly.
>
> There has been a lot of discussion on this mail list about how poorly
> knetworkmanager works on 11.0, so it is a known problem.  

That is unfortunate. I have no need/plans to upgrade to 11.0 since 10.3 is 
loud enough for me right now. I figure by the time 10.3 is end-of-life, 
they'll have figured out the bugs.





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