<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Gary Crosby <<a href="mailto:grcrosby@gmail.com">grcrosby@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Vincent, thanks for the input. The Network Manager is showing on the toolbar showing the overlapped monitors with a large red & white x in the middle of it.Tried your suggestion but nothing going, still have the same icons in the task bar. Clicking on the icon shows that the wired link is greyed out & not available for editting. Going into the system>network tools and checking eth0 reveals that it is not even registering. As for wicd I have never used it, but to install it now would require downloading the tar files then a make and bake session. Which I am not totally opposed to, but what happened inside Xubuntu that the previously stable network connection should simply die off on the upgrade?</blockquote></div> I have no idea, but do take note that you can just install wicd using the instructions for Ubuntu at <a href="http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php">http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php</a> (Or you can download the .deb package and install that directly from <a href="http://apt.wicd.net/dists/intrepid/all/">http://apt.wicd.net/dists/intrepid/all/</a>) -- Vincent