[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#508383: network-manager: Force NM to manage an interface with an option in /etc/network/interfaces

[Raphael Hertzog]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: normal

README.Debian explains all the cases where NM will not manage an
interface. The principle of this decision is sane but it lacks
a way to delegate an interface to NM anyway.

I have moved my eth0 into a bridge and I would like NM to handle my brigde
but there's no way for me to do that because creating a bridge requires
setting an option in /etc/network/interfaces:
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet manual
> 
> auto br0
> iface br0 inet dhcp
>     bridge_ports eth0 vbox0 vbox1
>     bridge_maxwait 0

Would it be possible to have an option "network_manager yes" that would force
NM to manage the interface ?

Cheers,
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-1-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-5      D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                           0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                         2.7-16     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                       29-1.1     Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                        1.1-3      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-2    network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.4-3    Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-3    network management framework (GNOM

network-manager suggests no packages.

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