NetworkManager on Ubuntu Breezy repository
- Published November 23rd, 2005 in Upfront News, Ubuntu
NetworkManager, the little neat application that controls networks on Redhat/Fedora is now bundled in Ubuntu Breezy universe repository.
This is a very nice application to control your networks, including wireless and wired. It shows a list of wireless networks available ($ iwlist eth1 scan made pretty) and it’s very customizable.
NetworkManager will also be default network manager in the next release of Ubuntu.
Update: If you’re getting
configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional
then just do
apt-get install libiw-dev (Thanks to Erik for the tip! :-)
Depois de baixar o intltool, agora tenho este erro:
checking for wireless-tools >= 28pre9… no
configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional
Ainda estou um grande nabo em Linux para perceber isto, podes dar uma ajuda com isto?
Translation
After downloading
intltoolI’ve got this error:I’m still a GNU/Linux rookie to understand this, could you please give me a hand?
Well, that means that you don’t have
wireless-toolsinstalled. Just do$ apt-get install wireless-tools.By the way, this is the last time I’ll translate a comment to English. Unfortunately, I’ll start to refuse comments written in Portuguese because I don’t have the time to translate them nor can I disrespect my readers. Portuguese is a wonderful language (it’s my native language) but it doesn’t target the majority of the audience.
i have wireless-tools, installed on.
I get the same message error:
wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional
tks in advance
_41
Istn’t it more disrespectful using a language which is not yours, and with mistakes all over?
Pecola,
In the first place, following your point of view, none of us would talk in a foreign language since we make errors. That is nonsense and somehow ridiculous.
Secondly, I write in English because I want to broad my target audience.
Thirdly and last, I do not think that istn’t exists. Typo or not, everyone makes mistakes. The important is learning from them and I’ve never ceased to improve my English nor I ignore those who correct me. Stand if you will but avoid those kind of comments.
Ó Mário,
As a native portuguese speaker - with extensive english knowledge - I feel the urge to leave a comment:
- this being your space you can very well do whatever you want; still, this being a public space you should treat people with respect;
- Choosing english as the operative language for this type of space is understandable yet troubling; I cannot distract myself from the notion of ’shame’ that such a choice entails, and I cannot avoid linking it to a recent event: during the MTV awards cerimony a portuguese band know for its english language lyrics went on stage to scream - this is Portugal, we should be speaking in portuguese!
- a very famous portuguese thinker once wrote (about this eagerness to be modern, or hip, as you prefer!): “we will one day look back in sadness at the things we are now discarding and we will soon lose”.
Please do forgive any typo mistakes - those are absolutely acceptable.
But only those!
cumprimentos,
lasantos,
I do treat people with respect ;-)
My choice of writing in English stands for the fact that you’re redirecting your content for a much larger audience. And when speaking about IT, which is the main subject of this blog, it makes even more sense to take such a decision.
Apart from that, I fully respect the Portuguese language and I’m deeply commited in spreading it with eloquency. I’ll do whatever it takes to preserve the beautiful language we have but I shall not get my self stuck due to it. English accomplishes by needs better than Portuguese for this sole purpouse.
P.S. - Everyone makes errors and there’s nothing wrong with it. I respect them as if they were mine and I would be very grateful if people corrected me (sending an email since this is quite offtopic).
Regards.. I mean…
Cordialmente,
Mário Lopes ;-)
ok guys, I am french (canadian)
I am expereincing the same problem without any results… (as _41)
Any idea?
if you get the error
configure: error: wireless-tools >= 28pre9 not installed or not functional
just do apt-get install libiw-dev and it should work like a sharme …
Erik from Berlin
Thank you erik for getting on the topic again :-), I saw the question about the problem with pre9 which I have also. Therefor many thanks for the answer you gave in the end to that problem, because it worked perfectly
Greetings,
Oskar from holland
Don’t forums or threads hold language policies ?
When I want to write/read in a particular language I just participate in a thread stating that language as a standard.
The main topic is to treat about “NetworkManager on Ubuntu Breezy repository”, isn’t it ?
(Falo português e umas 6 outras linguas, não sempre bem, mas tento utilizar a mais correcta ao contexto - o cara quem está dando respostas não poder fazer tambem a tradução, pode-se utilizar traductores automáticos, não é?)
By the way: I installed network manager on Kubuntu 5.10 and that works fine apart that on start I must call “dhclient ath0″ and “dhclient eth0″ to get IP assigned.
I think I am missing to run this “nm-applet” on the start list (as “10Snm-applet” for example ), am I right ?
I would like to save time on checking all the stuff again.
Obrigado e bom Natal.
Gràcies i bon nadal.
Gracies i feliz navidad.
Merci et joyeux Noël.
Tack och god Jul.
Thank you and merry Christmas.
Danke och frohe Weihnachten.
Evxharistw kai kalw Xhistouiena.
how do I run the NetworkManager
hello out there!
Visitor, first you need a Linux distribution (as far as I know, OSX does not support nm), then install the “networkmanager” package. The applet to control the connection is started via “nm-applet” in GNOME — or, if you use KDE, use “knetworkmanager”. You may need to install the appropiate additional packages…
And thanks to Mário, I wouldn’t be reading this if he wrote in Portugese. Keep up your multinational visitors!
Dave
Ressurecting this topic, and as an answer to cblanquer, nm-applet should be started as a gnome session service and not as a initd service. The difference being on where to invoke nm-applet. You should go to System -> Session and put it there.
Thanks for the Update, you saved me some time with libiw-dev!
Hello the configure script require HAL on ubuntu edgy and stops, but HAL is installed!!!
How I can fix this?