knetworkmanager (KDE4) small tips

I installed 11.2 and KDE 4 on a laptop last night and had some issues with knetworkmanager for which I did not find a quick answer here but eventually figured it out so might help some others:

  • knetworkmanger by default wants to use Kwallet, if you disabled kwallet then knetworkmanger will not connect anymore. You need to re-enable kwallet again in personal settings, advanced or configure knetworkmanger to not use kwallet (see next tip)

  • knetworkmanger can work fine without kwallet if you go to the settings and select to store the secrects in a file.

  • if for some reason knetworkmanger wont start by itself go to ~/kde4/share/config and open networkmanagentrc with kwrite and make sure autostart=true

  • Xil

Thanks for sharing those tips :slight_smile:

Tried that and it didn’t work for me.

it’s working for me even with the wallet disabled, but i did update it after install, enabling the traditional if-up networking to do the update then switching back to networkmanager afterward.

i do have a question about it though whille i am here. it works fine with my wireless but with my mobile broadband (Cricket USB) if i disconnect or if the connection is dropped, i can’t reconnect without rebooting. any ideas?

also even though there are provisions in the System Notificans to handle network-generated events, they don’t seem to fire when using the knetworkmanager applet.

sorry to jump in, my broadband tap is not active at all, does that lock / sound familiar?
Heinrich