[HLUG] Kubuntu natty

[Andreas T. Ege]

Hi there,

After giving up on sabayon linux, because I couldn't get a few for me crucial programmes to run, I'm back to kubuntu, updated to natty. 
Now I've got some issues there as well, which I hadn't had with maverick.
 
The first is mostly annoying, ever few system starts natty doesn't boot. Grub shows up just fine, starts to boot natty, but never actually does it. I just get a light blue screen, no boot messages and no noticable hard disk activity. After a reset natty then starts without problems, no error messages during boot. 

The other is more of a problem, half the time I don't get a wireless connection, and never automatically at start. Something, but not wicd, which I nirmally use, pops up the password dialog, and half the time then nothing happens, half the time I do get a connection. If I actually go in wicd, it doesn't find a wireless network. If I remove the wlan usb stick and plug it back in, wicd finds the network. On trying to connect, again about half the time it tells me the (perfectly right) password is wrong. The othe half of the time it connects just fine, with exactly the same password. 

Under /etc/init.d I find network-manager and wicd. Disabling network-manager sometimes help solve the prob, sometimes it doesn't. Using update-rc.d remove didn't change anything, but after update-rc.d network-manager defaults it keeps telling me that /etc/init.d/network-manager doesn't exist. 

Booting sabayon and wlan under sabayon works just fine, so I'm fairly sure the prob is in natty. I had a similar prob under whatever was before maverick, and could solve it by moving from knetworkmanager to wicd. 

Any ideas where I can look for more info or how to silve those issues?

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