Comments on: NetworkManager Gets Facelift for Karmic Koala Ubuntu 9.10

By: Anish D

Anish D — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:53:15 +0000

It is ‘true’ that the network manager got a facelift with Karmic. DSL connection does not work any more. So go back to jaunty or look forward to L****.04

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:32:29 +0000

@17 jlps:

Great to see that somebody else has the same notebook model!

After digging out a little bit, I found (I believe it was in that very same blog) some info on the broadcom drivers. I managed to put it to work yesterday and now eveything is fine with the wireless card.

What you have to do is install the system with no wired connection (no connection to Internet at all). After the reboot, change the software sources to get the packages from the CD only. Then run the Hardware Drivers and install the Broadcom Driver. It’ll ask you to reboot the notebook, but even before that, if you click on the network manager icon on the panel, you will see the available wireless networks.

Also, with Karmic, the kernel recognizes Sony MS cards with the JMicron card reader.

Hope this helps.

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:49:50 +0000

jlps: I take that back. It looks like the module ‘wl’ is not installed by default in Karmic (which is interesting because it probably has to do with it being proprietary). If you try to enable your wireless card from “Hardware Drivers” it should install the driver for you (provided you have an Internet connection), or you can install the module manually by installing the package bcmwl-kernel-source.

By: Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:43:12 +0000

jlps: the Broadcom 4312 card should work with the ‘wl’ driver from Broadcom. I’d recommend making a post in the Ubuntu forums if you need help.

By: jlps

jlps — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:49:53 +0000

I upgraded from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10 and had two surprises. The first one, very pleasant. Everything worked nicely out-of-the-box with my fire years old HP Pavilion. The second, on a HP Pavilion dv4-1125br, with a Broadcom 4312 board, seems to be a disaster: there’s no way to make it connect to the wireless network.

By: WindPower

WindPower — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:07:50 +0000

NetworkManager never worked for me either in Kubuntu 8.10 and 9.04, had to use wicd too. It just wouldn’t connect to any network, and asked repeatedly for the WEP/WPA keys to the networks I wanted to connect to.

By: Zac

Zac — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:56:22 +0000

Hey, looks good. Add up the changes like this and they make a big difference.

By: TJVideo: NetworkManager si rifà il trucco su Ubuntu 9.10 | TUXJournal.net

TJVideo: NetworkManager si rifà il trucco su Ubuntu 9.10 | TUXJournal.net — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:11:26 +0000

[...] e non sanno mettere mano alla riga dei comandi per far funzionare il proprio hardware. A sorpresa, dice qualcuno, ora funzionano anche le schede di rete wireless Broadcom. L’ennesimo ottimo passo in avanti [...]

By: dsgdsghd

dsgdsghd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:13:23 +0000

Notification pop-ups that indicate something is ready should not take the focus out of the current windows. And be placed always on top. (Being able to change that is not a problem, it only allows more freedom. Setting that kind of messages always on top as default is probably the most convenient.) And be small, animating them is a good idea.

By: dsgdsghd

dsgdsghd — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:11:09 +0000

“On the downside, the new animation doesn’t indicate how far the connection attempt has progressed–the old one distinguished between the stages of authentication, association and acquiring an address–but that’s only something geeks will care about. There’s also no longer a pop-up message when the connection is complete, but that’s not a big deal.”
Fair use

The absence of the indications is indeed a downside, they help a lot sometimes.
I would like to know when the connection is complete, so I can go surfing. Average Joe would like to know that too.