Ubuntu + KDE Nightly

[jmadero]

Hi All,

I know a lot of people don't recommend this but I just wanted to get a sense of the advances for KDE 4.2 so I installed it on top of Ubuntu. I'm a die hard GDE but I like the general appearance of KDE. My first question...

I made a new user for kde so I didn't have the conflict.

If I log directly into KDE I can't get my wireless driver to be seen (it's a broadcom driver that uses the native linux driver.) In gnome I can just go to drivers and there it is, click a few times and it's installed and ready to go. In kde...there's no such thing as drivers....I decided to install kwirelessmonitor, says it can't see my wireless card.

If I log into Ubuntu first with GDE and then log out and log in again in the KDE enviro using the second user I get wireless no problem.

Any ideas how to fix this? I don't want to use ndiswrapper so if the native drivers won't work I'll just remove KDE 4.2 and go back to what I'm comfortable with

[D-cat]

If you log into your old user with KDE do you get the wireless control?

I'm guessing the new user doesn't have network permissions.