Why can't I connect to the internet?

mastrgamr · 2011-10-08 21:26:55

for some strange reason I can't connect to the internet, physically or wireless. I have wicd-gtk installed to help me connect to the web, it was working fine then one day I rebooted my laptop and I can't get a connection to anything.

my wicd client just shows the wired connection setting, and when i press connect nothing happens. Is there something I might have uninstalled, or can reinstall to get a connection again??

chris427 · 2011-10-08 22:36:44

Have you looked through wicd's log files (/var/log/wicd/wicd.log)? If you post them we might be able to help you better.

Chris

denstark · 2011-10-09 06:08:09

Also, make sure that the wicd daemon is running:
# /etc/rc.d/wicd start

If you don't have it in your daemons array in /etc/rc.conf, it won't be starting automagically at boot.

gromlok · 2011-10-09 19:00:48

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lifeafter2am · 2011-10-09 19:09:53

gromlok wrote:

The same happened to me after updating. I had to do the network configuration again:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_Network
and this in particular, using profiles:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
(but still says that my profile does not exist, but I manage to connect )
You could do a ifconfig to see if you have eth0 or wlan0 or other interface.
Hope this help.

This is almost totally irrelevant. He is asking about Wicd and you pointed him to documentation about NetCfg?

If you are using a wired connection and dhcp, just log into a console and try running

dhcpcd eth0

Does it work? If it does then something is wrong with Wicd, if not, then something else is wrong.

Also, if you have two devices, sometimes they can get switched around in Wicd. On my one system eth0 and eth1 used to switch, and thus I would have to account for that in wicd every time I booted.

Last edited by lifeafter2am (2011-10-09 19:12:21)

pablokal · 2011-10-09 20:28:49

Downgraded to net-tools-1.16-18 and this solved for me the problem.
Go in terminal to /var/cacke/pacman/pkg/ and
do: pacman -U net-tools-1.16-18 *
see: http://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/

skottish · 2011-10-09 20:42:24

pablokal wrote:

Downgraded to net-tools-1.16-18 and this solved for me the problem.
Go in terminal to /var/cacke/pacman/pkg/ and
do: pacman -U net-tools-1.16-18 *

Of course one may want to leave the space out between 18 and *, unless they want to reinstall everything in the cache.

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Why can't I connect to the internet?

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