The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the network manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to remove the network manager and put wicd on instead. OK, now I could set up the wireless access point, all well and good.
It seems that the sync for Ubuntu One and Dropbox need the network manager as both are acting crazy this morning. UbuntuOne can't connect at all and Dropbox is partially syncing. Anyway wicd can't seem to connect to the wifi at my workshop either. Tried to remove wicd - no luck with apt-get. Had to purge it and reinstall network-manager with aptitude. Then the nm-applet indicator was missing from the tray and no way to interact with the network manager short of cli. Did killall nm-applet and then started it again - now it's hanging complaining: ** (nm-applet:1998: DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0 When I restart networking, it's using DHCP Client to reconnect. I can find other people with similar issue but no-one seems to know what's going on. The only person who seems to have solved it reinstalled 10.04 from scratch! So whenever I want to configure a router, I'll have to reinstall 10.04???? There has to be an easier fix? I frequently need to install routers . . . Paula
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