Is there a Network Magic competitor for Linux?

[csstein72]

I set up my home wi-fi network using PCs but I tried Kubuntu and I love it. Network Magic doesn't make a version for Linux though. Is there another application for Linux that will do the trick? Basically, I like the network map that shows the devices on the network and that can "repair the connection" for you if need be. I also like the ability to test the network speed. (So far on Kubuntu, though, I have not had to repair the connection. Linux rocks!)

Thanks for any suggestions!

Christian

[molloollom]

Re: Is there a Network Magic competitor for Linux?

Sup man. I had to look that up to see what it was, but yeah, there's an application that can do each of those things detailed in what it does on their website. There's no one application that can do all those things though, to my knowledge.

There's some superkaramba widgets that you can use to monitor network speeds, then send data to another computer on your network and it'll tell you what's up with speed on your LAN.
For printing, file sharing, whatever, you can use something like avahi, which is already installed and enabled, or something like the Samba file server, which is somehow different but nobody ever bothered to explain to me how. And LISA, which is a "lan information server", it checks out the network and looks for samba shares to grab stuff from.