Comment 36 for bug 15001

 (Kubuntu 5.04 Fresh install)

I have expereicned very similar problems using the kcontrol Network Settings to
configure a wireless card:

(1) Enable button does enable the card according to the GUI for a split second,
then it is disabled. The card is sometimes enabled and somethimes not after
exiting kcontrol.

(2) When I select the option to start the card during boot. 3 times out of 4
kcontrol did not modify the /etc/network/interfaces file correclty and restart
hotplug. The fourth time it did. The reason why it worked on the fourth try is
that the combination of apply commands and enable commands was different.

I have also experienced the same type of problems trying to set the time and
date. However, I was unable to set the proper timezone using the GUI. It worked
perfectly using tzconfig with sudo from the commandline.

The point, is that using sudo from the command line to edit the files and
restart services to effect the changes that would be applied using kcontrol DOES
work. There is however a major problem with kcontrol applying the changes that
are requested through the GUI. It is very inconsistent. As mentioned above, this
seems to be a problem with sudo and permisions. However, I would comment that
there needs to be some error checking in kcontrol for this. For example,
kcontrol knows what file should be edited based on the new settings. If kcontrol
tries to edit the file but fails, I would like to see an error message.