Solution for my connection problem with ethernet:
Using wicd, I changed eth1 to eth0 in preferences.

The long story:
I have a netbook, Dell mini 10 (1010)
I have had problems with my wifi chip under various distros. (Broadcom BCM4312)
Most times when it's not working I can get it working by jumping thru hoops with firmware.
In one instance, I got wifi working, but then there was a conflict with my ethernet chip and the driver I was using for wifi.
So in this case I had to make a choice if I wanted wifi or ethernet, but not both.
Ethernet chip is (Realtek RTL810E/RTL8102E)

Last night after trying MX-14_13.97 (beta1?), I removed it and re-installed AntiX 13.2 full
Everything (hardware) worked out of the box, except my ethernet for some reason, so I assumed I had a driver/firmware conflict as mentioned above.
Then I searched this forum and found a place to look for a solution.
dolphin_oracle mentioned to someone to look at / etc /wicd/wired-settings.conf and manger-settings.conf
This is where I noticed my ethernet was listed as eth1

The reason I like to have wired ethernet working on this netbook is I prefer to update and install software over a wired connection.
Thank you for reading this,
Jon

Some of those wifi chips get weird results. I had a 150Mbps Ralink usb adapter on my JUNKBOX that works great. I purchased off ebay a 300 Mbps usb wifi adapter (without looking to see what chipset it used) for cheap, but never could get it to work. After some research, I learned it had a Broadcom chipset that I never could get to work. So I just put the old one back in. I would love to set up a wired connection, but my dogs keep trying to drag it all over the place. The router is in one room, and my JUNKBOX is in another.