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.
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