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Oh, yes. I'd uninstall wicd. I haven't had any problems with networkmanager when I used it in 14.1 or 14.2.

Quote:

Originally Posted by scythempress (Post 5579120)

Let me correct me. The wireless is up and running not the cable.

You're connected via wireless?

Now I'm afraid to tell you to touch anything. :)

I agree. Yes I am wireless. Again wicd and nw are or were executable. Since wicd is not connecting wireless should I dump it? Or at least change it from executable? And if so how? ah seen your post. Will uninstall WICD

Ok went to "root@scythempress:/etc/xdg/autostart" and did "rm wicd-tray.desktop" will that do it or is there something else I should do?

I want to reboot and see if it works but I am afraid too. I am going to anyway, standby.

Did you also uninstall the wicd package?

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Originally Posted by scythempress (Post 5579131)

I want to reboot and see if it works but I am afraid too. I am going to anyway, standby.

Heh. You'll have to do it eventually. Grasp the nettle!

Ok, well wicd is still there. I had to restart NW but once I put my KDE wallet password in, it hooked right up

At this point, you can reconfigure NW to manage both your wired and wireless connections. Then again, you may want to go to bed.

Please run the command

Code:

cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

and provide the output.

On my machine, the output looks like...

Code:

root@hp635:~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules 



# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8176 (rtl8192ce)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="9c:b7:0d:a5:53:ca", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"



# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8136 (r8169)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:9c:02:1e:54:7b", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

root@hp635:~#

When you compare it against the output of ifconfig...

Code:

root@hp635:~# ifconfig

eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        ether 00:9c:02:1e:54:7b  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 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 5  bytes 249 (249.0 B)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 5  bytes 249 (249.0 B)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0



wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 172.16.0.11  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 172.16.0.255

        inet6 fe80::9eb7:dff:fea5:53ca  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

        ether 9c:b7:0d:a5:53:ca  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 143137  bytes 94635360 (90.2 MiB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 135309  bytes 23481955 (22.3 MiB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0



root@hp635:~#

...you can see how the ifconfig ether entries match what is in 70-persistent-net.rules.

Ok used the following:

Code:

/etc/rc.d/rc.wicd stop

Now will that do it or do I need to do something else?

Code:

root@scythempress:~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules



# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:00.0/ssb1:0 (b44)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:21:70:6e:fe:ab", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"





root@scythempress:~# ifconfig

eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 10.0.0.8  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.0.255

        inet6 fe80::216:44ff:fee1:1c2b  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

        ether 00:16:44:e1:1c:2b  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 1879  bytes 342745 (334.7 KiB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 40517

        TX packets 595  bytes 106103 (103.6 KiB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

        device interrupt 17  base 0xc000  



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 0  (Local Loopback)

        RX packets 4  bytes 288 (288.0 B)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 4  bytes 288 (288.0 B)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

BTW I am in rural Texas on a satellite feed if that has any bearing

If you run (as root)

Code:

removepkg wicd

, that would solve the problem.

The other option would be to run (as root)

Code:

chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd

. If you think that you might want to wicd later, then choose this option.

Quote:

Originally Posted by scythempress (Post 5579142)

Code:

root@scythempress:~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules



# PCI device 0x14e4:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:00.0/ssb1:0 (b44)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:21:70:6e:fe:ab", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"





root@scythempress:~# ifconfig

eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

        inet 10.0.0.8  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.0.0.255

        inet6 fe80::216:44ff:fee1:1c2b  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>

        ether 00:16:44:e1:1c:2b  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

        RX packets 1879  bytes 342745 (334.7 KiB)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 40517

        TX packets 595  bytes 106103 (103.6 KiB)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

        device interrupt 17  base 0xc000  



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 0  (Local Loopback)

        RX packets 4  bytes 288 (288.0 B)

        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0

        TX packets 4  bytes 288 (288.0 B)

        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Hmm. Ok. As root, run the command

Code:

insmod b44

and then run ifconfig to see if your ethernet card magically appears.

EDIT: If the insmod command fails, please give me the error message. I didn't run it locally.

Code:

insmod ERROR could not load module b44: no such file or directory

Am on other machine again.

Code:

As root typed /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager restart and got -su: /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager: Permission denied

But Wicd is gone!