Connecting WPA wireless while KDM startup

[attila_66]

I am using Kubuntu more than one year.
Before a month I bought a wireless modem for my home.
Also bought a Edimax wireless card for my desktop at home.
I have no connection problem.
Problem is:
Wireless is connectig later than expected.
I have weather widget on desktop and i also leave Firefox and Thunderbird open while shutdown so the come on with boot.
After I enter my password desktop comes on Thunderbird Firefox and weather widget loads but there is no internet connection at this moment. After a short while wireless connects but too late for these 3 programs.
So errors messages from these programs and weather widget is blank. After connection I have to close either close Firefox or refresh all tabs to make them load correctly. Can not connect to server popups from thunderbird.
For weather widget even I use right click update now option I have to wait 30 min (update interval) to weather report comes on screen.
So I need connection should come alive before or as soon as KDM starts.

Thanks for any help.

[flarson]

Re: Connecting WPA wireless while KDM startup

You might want to look at
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3102669.0
or search in this forum for wicd. The answer to your problem is

sudo aptitude install wicd

which will remove network-manager and install wicd. Configure it and it will start before KDE starts and solve your problem.

[attila_66]

Re: Connecting WPA wireless while KDM startup

Hello,

@Mando thanks for the repy.
I am using Hardy up to date.
When I tried to install wicd system said lots of packages will be removed.
Dont know if its dependent to wicd or not.
Here is console output:

attila@ubuntuattilas:~$ sudo aptitude install wicd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
network-manager-kde
The following NEW packages will be installed:
wicd
The following packages will be REMOVED:
amarok-mysql-data{u} cli-common{u} gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly{u} kdelibs5-dbg{u} kdepimlibs-dbg{u} libc6-dbg{u} libdigest-hmac-perl{u}
libdigest-sha1-perl{u} libdvdnav4{u} libdvdread3{u} libfile-remove-perl{u} libio-stringy-perl{u} libkdcraw3{u} libloudmouth1-0{u}
libmail-box-perl{u} libmime-types-perl{u} libmono-corlib2.0-cil{u} libmono-i18n2.0-cil{u} libmono-security2.0-cil{u}
libmono-system2.0-cil{u} libmono0{u} libmpeg2-4{u} libmpg123-0{u} libnova-0.12-2{u} libobject-realize-later-perl{u} libqt4-dbg{u}
libsidplay1{u} libuser-identity-perl{u} mono-common{u} mono-jit{u} mpg123{u} network-manager{a} wifi-radar{a} yauap{u}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 34 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 249kB of archives. After unpacking 568MB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
network-manager-kde: Depends: network-manager (>= 0.6.2) but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
knetworkmanager
network-manager-kde

Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
kubuntu-desktop recommends network-manager-kde
Score is -372

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q
Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.
attila@ubuntuattilas:~$

What you suggest to do now??

Thanks again.
Attila

[flarson]

Re: Connecting WPA wireless while KDM startup

The removal of network-manager-kde and network-manager are exactly what I would expect and they are appropriate.

Those packages followed by u (eg amarok-mysql-data{u}) are being removed for upgrading, which indicates to me that your system is not, in fact, totally up to date. If you run
sudo aptitude -f full-upgrade
it will probably do those and then the installation of wicd will only remove network-manager variants.

[attila_66]

Re: Connecting WPA wireless while KDM startup

@Mando Thank You for all the help.
I did what you said.
Wicd is working great.
Why KDE guys dont think about a wireless tool like this .

I am happy now thats it.