Comment 54 for bug 259214

Manuel, I agree with you. This bug was first reported in August. It's hard to complain about something that's free, but I wish a network-manager maintainer would at least comment on why it is taking so long to fix this bug and give some estimate of when the bug will be fixed.

Has anyone successfully disabled network manager and set up /etc/network/interfaces manually as a temporary fix?

Except for network-manager, Intrepid has gone very smoothly for me.