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13
Managing Network
Connections
To surf the Internet or send and receive e-mail messages, you must have configured an
Internet connection with YaST. Depending on your environment, in YaST select whether
to use NetworkManager. In KDE, you can then establish Internet connections with
NetworkManager or KInternet.
For a list of criteria that help you decide whether to use NetworkManager, refer to
Section "Managing Network Connections with NetworkManager" (Chapter 30, Basic
Networking, ↑Deployment Guide) and Section "Integration in Changing Operating
Environments" (Chapter 25, Mobile Computing with Linux, ↑Deployment Guide).
13.1 Using KNetworkManager
The appropriate NetworkManager applet should start automatically with the desktop
environment. The applet is then shown as an icon in the system tray. Using the applet,
choose a network to use explicitly at any time. Such a choice takes precedence over
automatically selected networks. The chosen network is used as long as it is available,
meaning that plugging a network cable in does not switch to a wired network connection
automatically.
If KNetworkManager is not running, start it with the command knetworkmanager.
When it is running, an icon indicating the current network status is shown in the system
tray. Depending on the state of the network connection, the panel icon changes appear-
ance:
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