Comment 26 for bug 203016

I know this is a plattform for bugs, but it seems this major bug won't get fixed in hardy - please correct me if I'm wrong... that's why I post some lines for people who want to work with their Kubuntu without getting their memory eaten up... I recommend using wicd:

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

I had no problems with it so far! It uses less memory and I reached all wireless lan's with it without problems!

Just add the following line to you /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://apt.wicd.net hardy extras

The only thing which you have to choose manually is the encryption of the wlan. Just start the GUI with:

/opt/wicd/gui.py

If you should have problems with it just restart the daemon and refresh the list with available wlans:

sudo /etc/init.d/wicd restart