How do I install knetworkmanager without a network?

I need to install knetworkmanager to use wifi connections on my laptop. Apparently it was not installed one the initial DVD installation, although the wifi card was detected and drivers for it installed, why I don’t know. In the past all that just got installed and I never had a problem. It apparently is not on the DVD and can only be installed from online repos, which I can’t do without setting up a wifi connection. Where I come from we call this dirty pool.

So, how can I install knetworkmanager so I can get Network Settings to work with wireless connections?

openSUSE 12.2, x86-64, KDE 4.9.2

Is the ‘plasmoid-networkmanagement’ package available on the DVD?

Assuming you have no access to wired ethernet connecivity, someone could walk you through wireless connectivity via CLI.

openSUSE 12.2, x86-64, KDE 4.9.2

I’m curious - how did you come to have openSUSE 12.2 with KDE 4.9.2, without internet connectivity?

Thanks for the quick reply deano_ferrari. I knew it was something simple I was overlooking, because I knew from iwconfig, iwlist, etc. that everything was working and picking up the wifi net, just not connecting.

First, I did not know plasmoid-networkmanagement has replaced knetworkmanager, or that it is activated as a sys tray widget, I have used SystemSettings for that in the past.

Lastly, it is really hard to find just the right spot to rclick to bring up sys tray settings and activate the widget but once done it works great! I think I’m really going to like this. Your info pointed me in the right direction to solve the problem.

And yeah,that’s what I want to know. Although to be fair, when I installed 12.2 I was using eth0 on a wired net and that was automatically setup and worked fine. At that time I did not use the wifi. It did set it up for use, I just didn’t know how to put it to use.

Again, manythanks for the help. Bye, bye Windows; you don’t know good that feels (or maybe you do).

I’m glad the pointer was all you needed.

Again, manythanks for the help. Bye, bye Windows; you don’t know good that feels (or maybe you do).

My pleasure. Yes, many of us know that feeling - Freedom! :slight_smile:

Hm, maybe, I should try Windows for some time to get that feeling after switching back. I guess that that is the only positive thing you can get from Windows: the feeling after you dropped it rotfl!. So it is a pitty I never had that feeling. But I doubt the trial is realy worth it :frowning:

On 01/15/2013 04:36 AM, hcvv wrote:
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> deano_ferrari;2518460 Wrote:
>> My pleasure. Yes, many of us know that feeling - Freedom! :slight_smile:
> Hm, maybe, I should try Windows for some time to get that feeling after
> switching back. I guess that that is the only positive thing you can get
> from Windows: the feeling after you dropped it rotfl!. So it is a pitty
> I never had that feeling. But I doubt the trial is realy worth it :frowning:

I used to run a computer lab with 37 Windows machines, and one Linux box that
controlled everything. My positive feelings when I no longer had to deal with
those 37 was great enough that I have plenty to share, even though that switch
was 6 years ago.