Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #279262
  2. Comment #110

Comment 110 for bug 279262

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Adam Porter (alphapapa) wrote :

After upgrading from Maverick to Natty using the dist-upgrade tool, my Ethernet connection was completely unusable, because it was "unmanaged".

I was able to manually activate the interface with ifconfig and manually run $(dhclient eth0) to get an IP from DHCP. Then I purged network-manager and reinstalled it. But it's STILL UNMANAGED!

This is absolutely insane. Upgrading Kubuntu from Maverick to Natty BREAKS NETWORKING, with NO WAY TO FIX IT other than mucking around in a terminal!!!

This bug has been around for YEARS!!!

How can Natty be released like this?!? Average users won't have a clue how to fix it and won't be able to find out because they can't get online!!!

Is this intentional sabotage against Kubuntu? If not, what other explanation is there for releasing a new version of Kubuntu that utterly breaks networking upon upgrading?

Debian would never, ever release a new version that has such UTTERLY FATAL bugs in it.

What does it take to get a CRITICAL bug like this fixed???