Thank you for the help. Now that network manager is working for me, I will just leave it.
For anyone else having similar issues, I had to be online, with an ethernet connection in
order to make it work. Still not sure why.
Here is a review of Salix 14.1 if anyone is interested. It caught my attention
https://eliasvo.wordpress.com/2014/10/1 ... alix-14-1/