ubuntu 9.04 desktop does not auto-reconnect into network after router reboot

farslayer · 06-03-2009, 10:53 AM

Wow I'm surprised moving that to a much higher number didn't cut it.. Ubuntu does start up in runlevel 2 just like Debian right ?

Download and unzip the driver package, and read the file titled INSTALL. it should explain how to install that build on your system.

neela77777 · 06-03-2009, 02:43 PM

Ubuntu does start in run level 2 -- that is the default.
When you say drivers, you meant the wicd package right?

The 1.6.0b3 tar ball opens into a folder with two files on it --

pkgbuild and wicd.install

both have code in them. none have any instructions -- this is where i stopped yesterday -- wasn't sure what to do beyond that. when i chmod'ed both of them to executable and ran them, they did not run.
By the way, network manager was able to auto-connect at boot time for both my desktops, but reliably failed to auto-reconnect if the network router was rebooted afterwards. That is the reason I switched to wicd -- now I have fully solved the problem for the one desktop, but half a problem remains for this one.

farslayer · 06-03-2009, 04:07 PM

Err yeah I meant the wicd package.. sorry bout that

Should be a lot more than 2 files in wicd-1.6.0b3.tar.bz2...

Code:

it-lenny:/home/someuser/temp/deleteme/tar -xjvf wicd-1.6.0b3.tar.bz2

it-lenny:/home/someuser/temp/deleteme/wicd-1.6.0b3# ls -al
total 404

drwxr-xr-x 16 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:15 .
drwxr-xr-x  6 someuser someuser   4096 2009-06-03 11:49 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser    122 2009-05-27 23:11 AUTHORS
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser    429 2009-05-27 23:11 .bzrignore
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser 260864 2009-05-27 23:11 CHANGES
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 curses
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 data
drwxr-xr-x  4 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 depends
drwxr-xr-x  4 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 encryption
drwxr-xr-x 14 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 icons
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 images
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 in
drwxr-xr-x 11 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 init
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser   2812 2009-05-27 23:11 INSTALL
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser  17988 2009-05-27 23:11 LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 man
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser   1767 2009-05-27 23:11 NEWS
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 other
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser   3568 2009-05-27 23:11 README
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 scripts
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser     82 2009-05-27 23:11 setup.cfg
-rwxr-xr-x  1 someuser someuser  25425 2009-05-27 23:11 setup.py
drwxr-xr-x  2 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 tests
drwxr-xr-x 55 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:15 translations
-rwxr-xr-x  1 someuser someuser   2511 2009-05-27 23:11 uninstall.sh
-rw-r--r--  1 someuser someuser    624 2009-05-27 23:12 vcsinfo.py
drwxr-xr-x  3 someuser someuser   4096 2009-05-27 23:11 wicd

Your file didn't contain all that ???

neela77777 · 06-03-2009, 05:13 PM

I will try the 1.6.0b3 -- i looked at the .tar.gz file

I sorted it out without that though ..
added

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

in the interfaces file

Strange -- the interfaces file in the second desktop did not have these two lines -- just the loopbacl stuff, and it still autoconnects. Not sure what to make of that.

Thank you very much for your help.