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Just when I was about to make Salix my working distro, this happens!

When I start the computer, I sometimes find I have no internet. Running ifconfig, the output reports eth0 as in use but gives no addresses. Pinging the router gives 'network unavailable'. The only solution seems to be rebooting.

The menu doesn't list any program for handling a network and the old trick of entering 'neat' in a terminal doesn't produce anything. 'Apropos' produces far too much! Is there no simple tool available to relaunch a ethernet connection?

wicd

I've never had any trouble with wicd, except that once there was apparent trouble with my *wireless* connection - probably the actual signal rather than anything else, and no doubt I should have left well alone. Inspired by curiosity, I connected manually, and my fiddling somehow broke the existing setup; I never could get wicd to work again. But then I don't really understand networking, so I was just following the recipe blindly, and that's how eggs get broken.

But maybe there's something exotic about your internet connection?

Wicd, incidentally, should just be there (a little icon next to the package manager icon), but if not, it's in the Network menu. Salix Basic doesn't have it, so in that case you would need to install it.