[ale] starting network in Kubuntu

[Jim Philips]

Thanks Michael. I had resolved my issue earlier, but I'll still use
this. Someone suggested that I install wicd. I did, but it interfered with
knetworkmanager and I kept losing my connection. So, I uninstalled wicd.



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On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 5:48 AM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I unexpectedly hosed my KDE setup in Kubuntu in trying to resolve some
> > dependencies. This would be a solvable problem, but I have no X session
> > available with KDE dead. And I don't have a network connection at the
> > command prompt...not even if I plug in ethernet directly. Here are some
> > things I have tried:
> > ifup eth0
> > ifup ath0
> > ifup wlan0
> > start networking
> > start network-manager
> > dhclient
> > None of this leads to any connection. In the old days, I had a connection
> > automatically on starting. Now, nothing seems to happen until someone
> logs
> > in to an X session. How can I get my network connection?
>
> The problem is that kubuntu uses networkmanager.  If you've configured
> an interface w/ that it doesn't define things in /etc/interfaces like
> you might expect.  As a consequence, ifup/ifdown don't work.
>
> I think the right thing to do is install cnetworkmanager (it's in the
> standard repo) which provides a commandline interface to
> networkmanager.  Of course, that can be a little tricky if you don't
> have network access.  Maybe you can download it to a flash drive on
> another machine.
>
> Michael
>
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