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Wilco

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

Wicd works fine using my wireless network. It does not automatically connect to eth0 when I plug in a cable, but I can connect to it by pressing connect manually.
I already have ethtool installed (do I need to run ethtool as a daemon???)

stabele

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 101

Re: Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

I have two maybe naive question:
1)are you connected to wireless network before you plug in ethernet cable? If yes, than wicd does not automatically switch to wired network. Maybe you can get it done by custom scripts wicd support for each connection, but I never used this thing in wicd.
2) do you have disabled in rc.cong interfaces you want wicd to manage INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0) ?

Wilco

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Re: Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

I have two maybe naive question:
1)are you connected to wireless network before you plug in ethernet cable? If yes, than wicd does not automatically switch to wired network. Maybe you can get it done by custom scripts wicd support for each connection, but I never used this thing in wicd.
2) do you have disabled in rc.cong interfaces you want wicd to manage INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0) ?

Thanks for your answers, 1) no I'm not connected to wireless, and 2) eth0 is disabled.

I found out it works fine if I connect eth0 manually and then I can remove and plugin the cable all I want and it automatically connects. This is because dhcpcd is already running for eth0 so maybe I should run dhcpcd eth0 in a boot script (although I think wicd should do this).

kalpik

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From: India

Registered: 2007-05-08

Posts: 163

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Re: Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

Same here.. When i unplug and replug the network cable, it does not renew the DHCP lease.. It continues with the previous lease..

JK3mp

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Registered: 2009-03-25

Posts: 105

Re: Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

I would just make a custom script and run it as a daemon. Would be the simple solution i think...

Wilco

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Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Re: Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

Of course, but isn't that exactly why I have wicd?

Aas

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Registered: 2009-10-27

Posts: 9

Re: Wicd does not automatically connect to eth0

Of course, but isn't that exactly why I have wicd?

Strongly agree.
I have the same problem.

But I don't get it. So this isn't considered a bug? (or lack of feature?)

EDIT: Now, it works as expected. I've done nothing. Except regular system updates. Lucky me.

Last edited by Aas (2010-07-17 21:13:00)