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Manage your network with the new KNetwork Manager

12 dic/09

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For the long instance the exclusive worthwhile meshwork control (especially of the wireless kind) was the GNOME Network Manager. Once KDE impact promulgation 4 their meshwork trainer KNetwork Manager was plagued with issues to the saucer where it was nearly unusable.

KDE 4.3 is discover today and the KNetwork Manager has developed quite a bit. Now this KDE agency has reached a saucer where it not exclusive entireness consistently, it’s also quite cushy to ingest – nearly superior the GNOME Network Manager in user-friendliness.

But for those who hit grown to depend on another effectuation of conjunctive to the gain (in KDE 4.x) by another means, the KNetwork Manager capableness seem a bit unfamiliar. In this tutorial you module wager meet how cushy it has embellish to start to a meshwork (specifically a wireless network) with the support of KNetwork Manager.

Installation

You module be entertained to undergo that there is no artefact needed for KNetwork Manager. But you module poverty to attain trusty you hit the stylish KDE updates. But you module poverty to attain trusty you are using the most past edition of KDE (As of this writing, KDE 4.3.2). To encounter discover what edition you are using unstoppered up the Dolphin start manager, go to the Help menu, and utter “About KDE”. If you are using a edition preceding to 4.3.2 you module poverty to go to your update trainer and analyse to wager if there are some updates for KDE.

Accessing KNetwork Manager

Figure 1

If you countenance in the asking Atlantic you module encounter the KNetwork Manager picture (see the picture in the black conservativist in Figure 1). If you utter this picture (either precise or mitt click) a schedule module imbibe up that:

Shows you if you are adjoining to a network.
Allows you to kibosh an astir meshwork connection.
Connect to a newborn network.
Enable/disable wireless.
Open the unification manager.

Figure 2

To create a newborn wireless unification either superior “Connect to Other Network” or unstoppered the Connection Manager. Let’s move from the Connection Manager. Select that entry to unstoppered up the Connection Manager (see Figure 2). As you crapper wager there are already digit meshwork connections available. Let’s create a third.

Figure 3

In visit to create a newborn meshwork utter the Add button, which module unstoppered up the New Network agency (see Figure 3). In this agency you crapper either add every of the aggregation manually or you crapper utter the Scan fix to encounter the meshwork you poverty to add. The construe agency is digit of my selection aspects of the newborn KNetwork Manager.

The Access Point Scanner (see Figure 4) gives you a illustration state of every acquirable wireless networks and their qualifying communication strength.

Figure 4

Obviously the meshwork that appears closest to the PC picture in the pane module hit the strongest strength. And since that is the meshwork I poverty to start to I module superior it and utter OK. Unfortunately, by selecting a portion admittance point, the exclusive plan this adds to your unification is the SSID. You module hit to go finished the rest of the plan and ordered the unification up. Make trusty you click on the Wireless Security journalism (see Figure 5), superior the comely section type, and start the precise countersign for the security.

Figure 5

Once you hit organized the unification you crapper OK this pane to administer the changes and modify the unification wizard. All you then requirement to do is utter the KNetwork Manager picture and superior your newborn meshwork unification to connect.

Final thoughts

I am rattling entertained with how the KNetwork Manager agency has matured. Prior to 4.3.2, the meshwork agency was null I would ever recommend. Now, however, I crapper safely propose this meshwork trainer to anyone.

Tags: KDE, KDE 4, Linux wireless, network manager, wireless connection, wireless-network