wicd

I ditched the native ubuntu Network Manager and installed wicd which is another open source network manager that works with Ubuntu.

But after configuring wicd with the static IP, I had another problem.

NetworkManager, KWifiManager, and various other utilities that have come and gone all attempt to make managing different network connections easy.

NetworkManager and KWifiManager do a pretty good job, though you often have to finick and fuss a fair bit. wicd (pronounced "wicked"), the wireless interface connection daemon, tries to do the job better

A new release of wicd has been released few days ago, i just tried on ubuntu hardy and i think that it's better than network manager 0.7 yet, although this one is very improved...

Wicd is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

Linux Wi-Fi Works with wicd By Carla Schroder July 11, 2008 Wireless management on Linux is a bit of a hodge-podge, especially for roaming users.

Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 12.1.01, the first minor update to the light-weight, Slackware-based desktop distribution.

From the changelog: "wicd updated (version 1.4.2), includes changes to daemon.py and networking.py to accommodate Slackware's networking scripts without altering them; 5ball gets a new high-contrast theme (requested....