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Missing KDE Network Screens, Unable to get work without dhclient

I've got a Belkin USB Wireless adapter that I can't get working with any of the 6.x betas or release candidates without manual intervention.

The OS sees the card as rausb0 when you use IWCONFIG. But, none of the Network Setup Screens let me choose this card so that the OS automatically gets an IP address for it upon startup. So, I need to use dhclient every time I boot like this:

I'm not positive where I put it (I think it was in a KDE Setup Screen). But, I was able to get this card to automatically come up with some of the earlier Mepis distros. I think maybe it was specifying rausb0 in the KDE Wireless Network section.

But, it looks like the Wireless Network section of KDE Control Center has been left out of the newer 6.x release candidates for some reason (and you can't specify rausb0 in any of the other MEPIS Screens, old or new, unless I'm missing something).

In the KDE Control Center with older Mepis releases, if you looked under Internet and Network, you had choices for Connection Preferences, Desktop Sharing, File Sharing, Local Network Browsing, Proxy, Samba, Web Server and Wireless Network.

The Wireless Network option is not there now (and this is the only place I know to get this card to work with Mepis).

Any suggestions? Since none of the other setup screens allow me to specify rausb0, and the KDE setup screens are missing, can I manually edit a file so that it does the dhclient rasub0 upon startup?