Because of a lot of problems with the standard network manager in Kubuntu 9.04, I installed wicd at a friends computer. He needed to set a static IP, and the network manager would not set this.
Wicd is easy to set up and everything worked fine, except for one thing - it did not autoconnect when rebooting. After some searching I found a tip about checking the settings in /etc/network/interfaces and found that the section for the wired network was totally missing. The only thing in that file was the loopback interface.
So first I checked that I actually had a network interface running by typing this in a console window:
This showed the loopback interface and eth0. So I added a section for the eth0 interface like this
Everything is just perfect now and works as it should, but thought I would post this here just in case someone else comes across this.
Wicd is easy to set up and everything worked fine, except for one thing - it did not autoconnect when rebooting. After some searching I found a tip about checking the settings in /etc/network/interfaces and found that the section for the wired network was totally missing. The only thing in that file was the loopback interface.
So first I checked that I actually had a network interface running by typing this in a console window:
Code:
ifconfig
Code:
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.42 network 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1
In actuality no such standard file exists for unix networking and never has. It is interesting that the world of unix has become much more similar with the growth of linux because many of the older commercial Unixes are dying and taking with them their AIXism's and HPUXism's etc... This is very similar to the fight about the Open Document Standard that MS is trying very hard to control.
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