Thank you. At least someone now believes me.

Yes back in 13.1 I never had the issue at all. This is only a recent thing with 13.37. The only thing I can think of is that a component of 4.5.5 is shutting down the network even though dhcpd and other networking services are still claiming to function properly.

Sadly Wicd is what I am using but it still can't keep the connection alive after KDE loads. Once KDE loads the networking is dead, and totally dead until I can reboot. Even restarting the dhcpd daemon doesn't help.

As of now I'm forced to use XFce. I want to upgrade it to 4.8 (I'm looking for a SlackBuild script ATM) although doing so requires adding a lot of packages from Gnome, but that's not biggy as I often have to install a lot of extra Gnome, GTK, and such packages anyway for what I use.

Since KDE Network manager doesn't ship with Slackware there's nothing I can do about it for now. Wicd doesn't help because it can't keep the connection alive either.

I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong, because 13.1 worked out of the box with zero extra configuration done other than installing Wicd which is the same thing I did with 13.37 and Current (8-27-2011 ISO).

I would suspect that the kde network manager is still being started somehow. Either by Autostart or perhaps it's getting restored with your session.

As a test you could create a new user with a fresh profile and see if the problem persists there. Just make sure that user doesn't run kde network manager.

Created a new user and carefully checked out everything. KDE Network manager is not able to be ran because Slackware doesn't include it. Made user a member of netdev and allowed Wicd to work. Switched desktop from Xfce to KDE, loaded X and KDE. Network died again.

T_T

Where/when exactly do you see this?

The Network setup options of System Settings. It's the one below Proxies at the bottom (Network Settings). I click the network settings page and the error appears.

Not my PC but this is what happens but in english.

I do not have such a tab in my SystemSettings -> Network Settings. I only have Proxy, Connection Preferences and Service Discovery. I have also installed the KDE Wicd Manager I mentioned before, so that is the fourth entry in the list. Are you sure that you haven't installed something else which is causing this to appear?

Note that I am not using 13.37's KDE (I have AlienBob's 4.7), so things might be different for this reason.

Hmm... I have considered upgrading to his 4.7 since I've seen it mentioned a few times... do you have the link to his repository with it?

Edit:

Found it... Downloading and should have it installed by tomorrow.

See here : http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/modu...for-slackware/

Got it installed (upgraded really) and the network seems to work now KINDA... connection tends to not be stable now, dropping off every 10-15 minutes, but I can restart dhcpd now and get connectivity back.

I don't wanna click Solved just yet...

So do you have the same options as me in SystemSettings -> Network Settings?

Oddly the option is not there but as stated, the connectivity is not stable by a long shot. I can only get a sustainable connection if I use XFce, so maybe it's just something not registering right, but I'm really at a loss again.

Just curious but is there a way to disable the KDE Services from running at startup.

Out of curiosity... Did you updated from 13.1 to 13.37 or did you do a fresh install?

I always do a fresh install.

Everything else like files are reloaded from backups and all software not from the original DVD (like SlackBuilds) is recompiled and reinstalled and/or simply replaced (if not available).

did you reoload it your home dir from a backup?

I ask because if you did maybe you overwrote your .kde folder where your old settings transfer over to a newer kde and maybe something is messing up... or even corrupted in that folder....

I only copy over the individual files. Everything like settings, scripts, custom loaders, etc. are all redone after the installation of the OS from scratch.