Comment 8 for bug 256054

I confirm this issue on a dist-upgrade from Hardy to Intrepid today.

I would appreciate if Ubuntu keeps a straightforward mechanism to edit config file(s) (preferably /etc/network/interfaces, as it's extremely well-understood and functional) and have network-manager honor them by ignoring the interfaces configured there. This has been possible at least since gutsy (when I seriously started using Ubuntu).

I'm a network engineer and sometimes finding myself configuring odd things like vlan and bridging on my laptop's wired interface - there's no way to do that in nm at the moment nor should there be, necessarily. At the same time, having the wireless interface doing its thing via network-manager is also useful, e.g. for scp'ing wireshark traces.

Thanks for listening.