Setting up wireless internet

[BloodiedFangs]

Hey, I'm having a few issues setting up my wireless to be anywhere near reliable enough. With 8.04, I suffered a little from wireless drop-outs, but it could always find the router again.

With 8.10, if it drops out, i have to re-boot my computer, which is a pain at best. Could someone please help me with this?

[sithlord48]

Re: Setting up wireless internet

w/ 8.10 start by installing wicd see if that helps. it is a network manager and will replace the built in knetworkmanager. for me is solved my wifi problems. you can download the installer with the link below.
http://apt.wicd.net/wicd_1.5.6_all.deb
just click on it to open and it should install w/ a few more clicks.
you can add the repo that is comes from to you package lists its

deb [url]http://apt.wicd.net[/url] hardy extras

but i always have problems updating/installing it via there repo and end up just getting the .deb so i would not even bother doing it.

after you install wicd you should see a new icon in your tray (maybe after you reboot) click on it to set up your wireless connection (look carefully for the "auto-reconnect" check box

[Guest]

Re: Setting up wireless internet

I'm new to Linux and installed Kubuntu 8.10 on my PC, and had the same problem with Network Manager dropping the connection after a few minutes, then unable to re-establish without rebooting. I found this string and have installed Wicd, which seems to be working well. I had to keep going back to my Windows installation to download other stuff that was needed: "dependency is not satisfiable".

If you're in this position you will need

a) to remove Network Manager via the console. I found code to do this via Google.
b) in addition to the Wicd package, you will also need to install
python-gtk2
python-numeric
python-cairo
python-glade2
libglade 2.0

Seems to be worthwhile as I now have a stable internet connection. Suspect this issue was due to the type of network card in my machine not being properly supported by Network Manager.

Hope I can save someone else all that rebooting!