Comment 3 for bug 533045

I came up against this problem in 1.7.2.4. Symptoms are that wicd does not connect to a plugged in wired interface at startup. Hacking around, I see that it makes no attempt to do so. First the daemon scans for wireless networks, then it sleeps until an auto-connect, then it looks for a wired connection, thinks none are plugged in (wrong!), sleeps again, then finds there is a wired connection after all.

A complete bodge fix is to force a wired_autoconnect() at startup and it instantly connects. I'm sure a real fix should be more careful ...