Hi,
I spent a few days on this, hope you guys can help out.
While running Mepis, I have the ability to unplug my ethernet cord while not on the internet, then simply reconnect it and immediately surf away.
This is something I cannot do in Antix.
Upon reconnecting, the network connection stays down until I open up the
"wicd network manager" and hit the reconnect button.
Is there a script or something I can alter to get Antix to automatically reconnect?

Most of my network scripts are similar between the two partitions,
here are a few of the Mepis settings:

Interfaces:

Settings for eth0
Use DHCP to get IP settings
Start at boot


Network Assistant:

Connect to internet directly
Automatic ( Network manager)

Use static DNS
(example) 123.12.34.56
Secondary DNS
( example) 123.12.34.57

Thank You for the assistance,
b.

Hi,

what you want is to look into the wicd preferences (it may be a hidden menu off to the right under a triangle) and make sure the following two boxes are checked:"automaticly reconnect on connection loss" and"always switch to a wired connection when available". the later will give you the behavior you are looking for, although its a tad slow to refresh the network/dhcp. If you are using the icon in the toolbar, you may have a connection before the icon says you do.

That was a nice spot you showed me, Dolphin.

However, my machine might be a little stupid, the fix didn't take.
I fiddled around with a few other check boxes to no avail.
Waited 5 min, never reconnected .... usually mepis will reconnect in 5 sec.


I could check a script to see if the gui wrote to it.......... ( don't know which one)

I have one more box checked, with the"wired-connection" shown as a default profile. Other than that all I did was close wicd the wicd gui.

hmmmm,
got that checked also,
I'll keep fiddleing




when you tested your box, how long did it take to auto reconnect after reconnecting your cord?

Have you tried using ceni and then see if it auto-reconnects,

Well,
I was working with that yesterday,

I just reconfigured as you asked, after the Dolphin fix,

not working yet



Ceni settings:

Method:
DHCP

Class
Auto

bbwf,

it took about 5-10 seconds. I will say that sometimes I had a connection even if the wicd-tooltip said I didn't. The wicd-icon-tooltip information is not very responsive.

if this computer has wireless as well, you may want to disable it. I just realized I had my wireless disabled while I was testing the wired configuration.

It's an old school machine, no wireless

HP P3 dual processor Katmai

Ethernet amd 79c970 ( pcnet32 Lance)

one more idea,

check in /etc/wicd/wired-settings.conf and see if you have a blank profile. it should look something like this [] . If you do you can try deleting it.

That's a good spot to look at:

Wireless-settings.conf ( blank..... as it should be )

wired settings.conf

[wired-default]
afterscript = None
dhcphostname = antiX1
postdisconnectscript = None
dns_domain = None
gateway = None
use_global_dns = False
lastused = True
encryption_enabled = False
beforescript = None
ip = None
broadcast = None
netmask = None
usedhcphostname = 0
predisconnectscript = None
enctype = None
default = 1
dns2 = None
search_domain = None
use_static_dns = False
dns3 = None
profilename = wired-default
dns1 = None

everything in there matches mine. How about manger-settings.conf?

here's mine

manager settings shows autoreconnect as true, don't know if last line is correct


[Settings]
backend = external
wireless_interface =
wired_interface = eth0
wpa_driver = wext
always_show_wired_interface = False
use_global_dns = False
global_dns_1 = None
global_dns_2 = None
global_dns_3 = None
global_dns_dom = None
global_search_dom = None
auto_reconnect = True
debug_mode = 0
wired_connect_mode = 1
signal_display_type = 0
should_verify_ap = 1
dhcp_client = 0
link_detect_tool = 0
flush_tool = 0
sudo_app = 0
prefer_wired = True
show_never_connect = True

well, I'm stumped. Sorry. You could try changing the setting for the link connect tool under preferences to one of the two options shown. Maybe one will work better than the other for your hardware. Its under"External Programs".

The last line simply defines whether wicd displays networks which you've designated never to connect to. Its handy for wireless networks where you don't really want to see your neighbors networks. It corresponds to the"Never Connect" setting in the gui.