[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517194: Bug#517194: network-manager: Does not recognize/manage wired ethernet card any more

[Paul Menzel]

Am Donnerstag, den 26.02.2009, 15:16 +0100 schrieb Raphael Hertzog:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > See the README.Debian regarding the new managed mode.
> > 
> > If you want to keep your devices configured via /e/n/i but managed by NM, then
> > use managed=true in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and don't forget
> > to kill the running nm-system-settings instance.
> 
> I tried to remove the entry in the interfaces file and restarted
> network-manager (invoke-rc.d network-manager restart) and it didn't work.
> Isn't nm-system-settings restarted at the same time ? 
> 
> > Would it help you if I added a few lines in a NEWS.Debian?
> 
> Definitely if you plan to break compatibility from one release to the
> other. Better would be to auto-add the required setting on upgrade
> so that NM continues to manage what it used to manage.
> 
> It probably has implications for default desktop installation as well,
> they would get the status "offline" back from NM, which is not really
> desirable as you know, just because NM would refuse to manage the default
> DHCP connection created by d-i.

This thing also hit me today. I took a quick look at README.Debian but
thought the managed mode was something old and did not read it. It would
have helped me, if a small note (as the one from your message) had been
in NEWS.Debian.


Thanks,

Paul
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