Knetworkmanager not starting 9.10

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2009-11-22 at 12:29 -0500, Jerry Lapham wrote:
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 10:40:36 am Nigel Ridley wrote:
> 
> > We have a Dell Vostro laptop running Kubuntu 9.10. There are several user
> > accounts. Sometimes Knetworkmanager will not start for an individual user
> > and has to be started manually. I even added it to the 'System Settings >
> > Advanced > Autostart' and it still refuses to start automatically. This is
> > not the case for all users all the time. It did happen once to my wife's
> > account but a log-out/log-in fixed it.
> >
> > How do I get it to start as it should?
> >
> > If I decide to use network-manager-gnome instead, how can I make sure that
> > knetworkmanager stops loading - forever?
> 
> You might also want to consider wicd.  It disables knetworkmanager when it's 
> installed.

I just uninstalled Karmic and re-installed Jaunty from scratch.
Wonderland would not run at all in Karmic... and I hailed all the Java
guru's I could find to remedy the problem. ONLY re-install to Jaunty
cured it. IMHO, for heavy Java applications, I'd not recommend Karmic. 

Then network-mangler did the usual and ignored my /etc/host file and
assigned me another ip address using dhcp. I fired up the KDE setup
mangler and using the network setup was NOT intuitive at all... not to
me and I've been around since the 9 floppy disk Slackware install days.

It's been the bain of every Linux install I've ever used. Is there some
reason, after many years, it ain't just fixed?? Can someone assemble a
blue ribbon committee of the real gearheads to put it right?? I'll bake
cookies, if that is what it takes, or send a pizza or two. Veggie or
extra meat?? Tell me where to deliver it. :) Ric