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network-manager package

  1. Bug #279262
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 279262

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 279262] Re: network-manager After reboot network is totally broken

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 10:20:31AM -0000, Claudio Satriano wrote:
> network-manager 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1
>
> I got the same behaviour as in this bug report.
> Nevertheless I'm connected to the network, even if the NM applet shows up with a little cross, saying "No network connection".
>
> As a side effect, Firefox always starts in offline mode, and I have to
> manually switch it online.
>
> Here are my /etc/network/interfaces :
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.2.27
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.2.1
>
>
> and my /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf :
>
> [main]
> plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
>
> [ifupdown]
> managed=false
>

Yes, if you only have unmanaged devices, network manager will
currently think you are offline. This will be fixed for final i
hope. However, you have quite a simple configuration and could go for
"managed=true".

Give it a try ;)

 - Alexander