Network connections are managed by Wicd in Salix. It is an open source wired and wireless network manager for Linux which aims to provide a simple interface to connect to networks with a wide variety of settings.

It will connect to wired (Ethernet only, no PPPoE/DSL support yet) and wireless networks.

Note that wicd and wireless must be activated in the startup services (see Section 3.3.8, “Startup Services”) in order to make wireless networks visible on Wicd.