Thomas Bächler wrote:

Manne Merak schrieb:

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So, I am new here, just installed ArchLinux on my work laptop. Had some issues with getting X and KDE4 up, but all fine now. KDE4 is different, I can see why some people dislike it - still needs that polished feeling that 3.5 had, but hey that will come with time. My biggest concern at the moment is Bluetooth mouse and Wifi. KBluetooth looses my mouse, randomly, and there is no KNetworkManager (well a finished one) at the moment.

So my question, what does the ArchLinux KDE community use for Bluetooth and Wifi management. (I can fiddle round with bluez and wpa_supplicant config files, but would rather use some higher level config util)

Manne ps. I come from the OpenSUSE world, so excuse my desire for management tools.

From my experience, kbluetooth4 is rather useless (many bugs, no features, virtually no active development). I've been using blueman recently, which does all I need. My mouse works great with bluez and automatically connects (all I had to do is set it to "trusted" in the blueman device manager). I sometimes have the problem that the mouse stops working, but then I simply switch it off, wait for a while and switch it on again, but this hasn't happened in a while now.

About networkmanager, I always disliked it very much and don't know what KDE users do about it nowadays.

Using blueman I found that the bluetooth module was not responding as it should (kbluetoothd just started with no error, and kbluetooth tools just gave dbus errors!). So it seems that the bluetooth modules does not survive a suspend-to-RAM, will have to place bluetooth and btusb modules in reload list for suspend. So has development on Kbluetooth stopped? I cant find any clarity on this on the KDE-apps page. Manne

Andrea Scarpino wrote:

On 27/05/2009, Manne Merak wrote:

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My biggest concern at the moment is Bluetooth mouse and Wifi. KBluetooth looses my mouse, randomly, and there is no KNetworkManager (well a finished one) at the moment.

unluckily kbluetooth does not work with kde 4.2, still I have not a solution for this (gcarrier should works on this...). But I have a good news: I am using kde 4.3beta1 here and kbluetooth works for file transfer pc-phone and viceversa (which does not work on kde 4.2) but I cannot try others bluetooth devices.

you can use networkmanager-plasmoid-svn from AUR to manage your networks.

Regards

Thanks, yes I am on latest KDE4.3beta and bluetooth works, was issue with bluetooth module not surviving suspend to RAM. I have heard about networmanager-plasmoid - will have to figure out how AUR works. Thanks for the help Manne

I'm using netcfg too, with through the autowifi daemon ( wiki.archlinux.org/Autowifi http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Autowifi) But I'm using too some netcfg-proof network (worst than terrible wifi), and for this, I'm using archassistant.