KDE cannot connect to the internet

[dragonwrenn]

I'm unable to connect the internet while running KDE desktop on Ubuntu 10.10.

Neither Rekonq nor Chrome can connect to the internet. I recently moved to KDE from GNOME, and I uninstalled all GNOME packages via Synaptic.
I'm trying to connect with a cable and it worked fine in GNOME, but not KDE.

I'm also dual-booting Windows and Ubuntu, and can connect fine from Windows without changing anything, so it must be a software issue on the KDE side.


(I don't know if this is actually relevant), but it says in System Settings/Service Manager that Network Watcher (in Load-On-Demand-Services) is not running. It doesn't start running when I try to connect to the internet.

Thanks!

[bergfly]

How did you move to KDE, which packages did you install. Do you have a network icon in the system tray? You might be missing packages. Make sure you have plasma-widget-networkmanagement installed. That should give you the icon in the system tray.

If that is not the issue then there is a bunch of troubleshooting we need to do.

Installing package wicd will give you network connectivity too.