Hello Everyone,

Slackware 14.2 64 bit.

Yesterday i was online, then turn off my computer. Today i turned
on my computer but, now the eth0 device does not show up on wicd-client.

This is what i get when i run ifconfig

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::dc28:d3ff:fe09:9a1f prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether de:28:d3:09:9a:1f txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 1 bytes 362 (362.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 8 bytes 648 (648.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 1 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 22 bytes 1540 (1.5 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 22 bytes 1540 (1.5 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Right now i can only get online if i run

dhcpcd eth0

However the device eth0 still does not show up on wicd. Any idea how i can fix this?

It seems as if the device is turn off.

Maybe all you need is:
ifconfig eth0 up

Hello HermanAB,

I had tried that but, that does not allow me to go online or get the device to show up on wicd.

If you have only an Ethernet adapter (no wifi connection) there is no need to use wicd. Just run netconfig again as root and when asked how to configure your network choose DHCP.

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Hello Everyone,

I got wicd to work again with the wired connection. I got it to work by doing this. Under then wired network i pressed the add button then for profile name i named it eth0. Then su to root and do killall dhcpcd. Then hit connection button on wicd. Now it's working fine.

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