Wireless connection

It seems like what ever Ubuntu uses isnt so grand for my wireless connection as it DC's very often and i noticed that when using Mandriva 2008 it worked MUCH better
can anyone explain how to install the network manager from Mandriva and make it work?
I'd love you =]

 

Whats the name of it from Mandriva? I haven't used Mandriva(will soon enough though).

 

Thats the thing i could never manage to figure out the name
mainly because im a complete linux noob
but i dont have the time currently to re download the live CD as i lent it to a friend
so i cant check!

 

Ive been trying to search ubuntu repositories through the web (dont have ubuntu installed) but they dont respond.

What the thing is called is "net_applet", although it could be just a generic thing

 

ah alright thank you ill try and find a way to install it would i have to uninstall ndiswrapper or w.e the default ubuntu networking program is to enable net_applet

 

Here is a thread in ubuntu forums, its very similar to yours

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=62542


basically it could be called net_applet or netapplet in synaptic, the thread also offers other suggestions



EDIT:

type this in terminal, if it works then show me some love as promised lol

sudo apt-get install netapplet

 

hehe well
you pointed me in the right direction
apparently netapplet is already installedd
so all i had to do was download Knetworkmanager rather than Networkmanager
networkmanager has some nice features like auto wired connect but my ethernet connection was fried once whent he power went out
so it auto trying to connect to the wired connection which didnt exist was probably as annoying as trying to use wireless in windows xp =|
but knetwork manager is what i wanted =]
and thanks for the help!

 

*networkmanager just manipulates the scripts/files used by ifup/ifdown. you don't actually need a gui. you can keep eth0 from initiating on boot by commenting out 'auth auto' in /etc/network/interfaces.