I used - for a short time until recently - Mepis, and when i booted, Knetwork manager was running and i was connected, but with KDE it is running and shows as connected, but in fact it is not... in order to access the 'net i have to select ->Options ->Switch to offline mode and then Options ->Switch to online mode in order to get online.

This has been the case for the last couple of years or so, with both native Kubuntu and kubuntu-desktop installed on Gnome.

Could someone tell me how to have the network connected at boot? - i tried telling Knetwork manager to do so via Configure interface but the settings refuse to stick.

Any and all advice will be highly appreciated.

p.s. It's a wired connection.

This is likely a manifestation of how buggy KNetworkManager is ( it can't even connect to a WPA-PSK network on my machine.... ) I would recommend using an alternative network manager ( such as Wicd ), or doing it the old way ( using ifup )

You could try the GNOME nm-applet if you wished to continue using NetworkManager...

bcooksley wrote:This is likely a manifestation of how buggy KNetworkManager is ( it can't even connect to a WPA-PSK network on my machine.... ) I would recommend using an alternative network manager ( such as Wicd ), or doing it the old way ( using ifup )

You could try the GNOME nm-applet if you wished to continue using NetworkManager...

Which repo will nm-applet be in, Adept and Synaptic can't find it....

Wicd does the same as Knetwork-manager... ifupdown is installed, is it command line ?

Try searching for "networkmanager" and look for applet or GNOME in the search results.

bcooksley wrote:Try searching for "networkmanager" and look for applet or GNOME in the search results.

"Knetworkmanager" and "networkmanager" are both installed... Thank You for your help, perhaps i'll just leave it as it is....