Comment 9 for bug 289466
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| Alexander Sack (asac) wrote Re: [Bug 289466] Re: Network Manager 0.7 applet not Appearing if there are managed entries in /etc/network/interfaces | #9 |
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:50:48PM -0000, Steven Harper wrote:
> I still think that this is a bug
>
> I have an eth0 this is disconnected, and as you see from my log its
> disconnected and gets this in the log
>
> Oct 26 12:40:40 uber-ubuntu NetworkManager: <info> Unmanaged Device
> found; state CONNECTED forced
>
> Now I have got an entry for eth1, this should be ignored by NM, however I don't think this is a good reason to have NO
> NM in the tray. NM should be there with a greyed out eth0 and an uneditable eth1 (because its managed).
>
the applet will not show connected. the CONNECTED from the log is
about forcing the state queried by applications to guess the
online/offline state (e.g. firefox, pidgin etc. offline modes).
So yes, its a display bug in nm-applet; but this is mostly about
confusion as it shouldnt have any impact on your network operations.
- Alexander