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network-manager package

  1. Bug #256054
  2. Comment #44

Comment 44 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 Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:46:57AM -0000, cangia wrote:
> I upgraded from 8.04 to Intrepid this morning. No way to make NM work.
> I tried all the hints above, none solved. I had problems both with NM and /etc/network/interfaces interaction, and /etc/resolv.conf.
> Disabling a (static) eth0 from interfaces, made NM work, except no resolver could be used, I had to change them by hand in resolv.conf. At boot time, NM clears the file.
> Solution: uninstalled NM and returned to the old static interfaces and resolv.conf files.
>

in managed=true mode you need dns-nameservers x.y.z.0 in your
interfaces file.

If you remove the configurations from interfaces, you can configure
DNS and static ip in the network manager connection editor since 0.7.

 - Alexander