Can't connect to the internet

[Methos94]

Alright I was having trouble with knetworkmanager so I decided to install wicd, the next day I booted up my com and wicd wouldn't work so i decided to use knet anyways. It told me that it wasn't enabled and the document that I needed to alter to enable it wouldn't let me as it was owned by root. So I looked up how to change it's ownership and then the file disappeared, long story short I don't have knetworkmanager and wicd isn't working, and when I try to get knet from synaptic it says there is a file I have to download, obviously I can't download the file as I am not online. If anyone knows a workaround or way to fix it or idk I just can't get online and I'm so confused

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

Search on wicd from GreyGeek. He has posts here on what you have to do when installing wicd and removing knetworkmanger, which must be done fully before wicd will work properly.

[Methos94]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

I searched for it and followed his instructions but I can't install 3 of the packages without internet, I have an eth0 cable plugged in but my com doesn't seem to care

[GreyGeek]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

...
but my com doesn't seem to care

com ?

[Methos94]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

My computer doesn't seem to register that anything is being connected when I plug in an ethernet cable.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

You said you "don't have" network-manager. Did you uninstall it? Or just delete it?

If you did use Synaptic (or KPackageKit) to uninstall it, you probably didn't uninstall some auxiliary files.

Assuming that you did uninstall and not delete, open a konsole and issue

sudo apt-get autoremove

That should remove network-manager orphans. Reboot and retry wicd.

If that doesn't work, and you've removed too many networking apps then you'll have create your ifconfig and route by hand.

[Methos94]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

No it didn't work my wicd networking still won't connect to my network... So a nice tutorial on the ifconfig fun sounds like the next step for me if anyone would care to point out the path... ^_^

[Detonate]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

First, make sure your network card is being recognized for your wired connection. Issue

ifconfig -a

in a terminal and report the results.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Can't connect to the internet

No it didn't work my wicd networking still won't connect to my network... So a nice tutorial on the ifconfig fun sounds like the next step for me if anyone would care to point out the path... ^_^

You did the "sudo apt-get autoremove" and that didn't let wicd start up and let you connect? What error messages do you get when you define your wireless connection point?

Remember, you are getting those "must be root" messages because you are not using "sudo".
Another possible reason is that you've somehow removed yourself as a member of the "netdev" group.