I can confirm the same problem just upgraded a stock 8.04 Hardy with
Network Manager 0.7 to 8.10 Intrepid. My wired and wireless networking
stopped working. DHCP wasn't working for any interface. DHCP worked fine
before the upgrade.

I was able to manually configure a network interface, but was then
blocked from reinstalling 'network manager' by 'network manager' itself
claiming I was still 'offline' (the same thing that network manager uses
to screw up bluetooth networking and firefox/thunderbird).

After reading this bug: By changing the user from 'dhcp' to 'root' in
the '/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-dhcp-client.conf' I was able to get DHCP
going again.

Like the rest of us with this problem I have certainly never edited or
even heard of the '/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-dhcp-client.conf' file.

Upgrading to 8.10 has been a huge disaster/regression for networking
particularly for netbook users (most problems have been related to
drivers used in the market leading netbooks like ASUS and Acer). I've
just spent hours reading many many web pages and forum posts from the
many suffering Ubuntu users who upgraded and found their networking
stopped working, PPTP stopped working, DHCP stopping working, and a few
other problems. Then, with no working network, they have extra problems
trying to restore their systems. I read several angry venting people say
they are giving up on Ubuntu completely and going back to XP. That's sad
for all the hard work the Ubuntu team and community put in. 8.10 may
have many improvements but I think it has been a net set-back for the
Ubuntu/Linux community.

Some sort of bold warning about the networking regressions should be
added to the upgrade process or a fix applied to 8.10 otherwise more
Ubuntu users will suffer if they upgrade their Hardy installations. Even
if just a warning to wait for Jaunty or something.

Aaron.

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[NM 0.7 - intrepid] DHCP org.freedesktop.Dbus.Error.AccessDenied
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