Network manager advice

Hello all Can anyone clarify how network management works by default in Trinity? Coming from a Gnome background I was expecting an all-around Wired/Wireless manager akin to network-manager but have had no such luck. I primarily use WiFi, and did try out KWiFiManager, but it appears to be quite buggy. Specifically, for my card it states that 'no networks [were] found' (but the same scan with iwlist returns a network list). I would ideally like to use network-manager, and while I have heard whispers online about a package called network-manager-tde (it turns up in a few Google results); it does not appear to be available in the TDE repository. I'm running Debian 7 (Wheezy).