Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #256054
  2. Comment #41

Comment 41 for bug 256054

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 256054] Re: [intrepid] new 0.7 branch ignores /etc/network/interfaces

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 09:40:56PM -0000, Rick Allard wrote:
> I made some changes a few weeks ago to get my (now) Ubuntu 8.04.1
> (/etc/issue) going with a WPA access point. (That was a horrid
> struggle.) I've been through some automatic updates since then including
> one this morning after which Firefox seemed to stick with Work Offline
> checked (even in a brand new user account).

If you are configuring your network in /etc/network/interfaces and
have managed=false in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf then
you will experience that behaviour. We will fix that for final.

>
> Things are pretty hosed.

At best try to disable your configurations in /etc/network/interfaces
and see if things work better in intrepid for you.

>
> I've found a work-around in Firefox so that I don't have to explicitly
> turn off Work Offline (set toolkit.networkmanager.disable to true), and
> I can do that manually in Liferea. But Pidgin has no obvious setting.
>

Yes, that option exists. We will fix the issue for all setups that
have unmanaged devices.

 - Alexander