knetworkmanager : only for wireless ?

[Luka Renko]

On Sunday 10 December 2006 12:30, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Luka, thanks for clarification.
> Meantime is there any tools (within KDE ?) to manage all network interfaces
> ?

No, there is no one tool for all networking. :-( 
knetworkconf (System Settings -> Network Settings) provides you full control 
over your network interfaces, the only real limitation is that it does not 
have WPA support (only WEP). However static config and profiles does not help 
you much with mobile users, where knetworkmanager is the right answer.

Some improvement in this area are planned to be addressed with better network 
roaming support in Feisty: 
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/network-roaming

The idea is to have network manager (knetworkmanager) by default and link it 
to static network config (knetworkconf in KDE) when interfaces need static 
config. This will improve the situation as users will not be confused by 
missing interfaces in the knetworkmanager.

Regards,
Luka