knetworkmanager, or something like it, for Gnome???

[googlymoogly]

OK. I am a long time KDE user and I have finally come around to seeing the brigther side of Gnome. The only thing that is really bothering me about this is the complete lack of a network manager like knetworkmanager, which was absolutely the most simple program in the world. For some reason everytime I reboot, my computer activates my wired connection as well as my wireless. Now, I only use wireless as we are discussing my laptop, but I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to change this once Gnome has loaded. If I log in to KDE, knetworkmanager also loads my wired cnnection by default, but with 2 clicks I'm connected wireless.

Basically what my question is.... Is there something like knetworkmanager somewhere out there for Gnome?

[spiffytech]

I think the Gnome equivalent is called "networkmanager". If that's not right, fire up an Ubuntu live cd and see what's running there, because it uses a nearly identical program.

[szegey]

I think in GNOME you have to load "nm-applet".

[googlymoogly]

That was absolutely correct. nm-applet is exactly what I was missing. thank you so much.