On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 07:34:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:27:26PM -0700, Arthur Barlow wrote: > > I understand that NetworkManager was designed as a tool for the woeful state > > of wireless connections and linux, but I'm using a workstation with a > > "hard-wired" connection and networkmanager cannot seem to manage it. It > > shows "ifupdown(eth0)" as being unmanaged, which I suppose is no big deal, > > but it assumes that I'm not connected. Therefore, whenever I launch > > Epiphany it starts up "off line" as it assumes I'm not connected. Is there > > a simple fix for this? > > The prevailing wisdom on this list seems to be to remove network > manager. It will take the gnome meta package with it, but other than > that you shouild have no problems.
Yes true. Please make sure to manually select all other packages selected by the gnome meta package if you are using aptitude. > or, I believe you can just remove any "allow hotplug" lines from > /etc/network/interfaces to get a similar effect, but then, since > network mangler won't be actually doing anything, what is the point in > having it around? Wait. Once you remove "allow hotplug" lines, then NetworkManager will be managing interface. So do not remove it if you want to have network connection. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_the_network_configuration_infrastructure http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html#_automatic_network_configuration Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
