Hi Michael,<div><br></div><div>I've tried it, and it fixes the hostname issue (nm does no change the hostname).</div><div><br></div><div>I had to set "managed=true" inĀ /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf, nm-applet said "interface not managed", then the wired interface works perfectly with nm-applet, but the wireless interface is still in "not ready" status.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If I put the wpa-conf stuff in /etc/network/interfaces and run "ifup eth1" the interface works as expected.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Roberto Lumbreras<br><br></div><div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Michael Biebl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:biebl@debian.org">biebl@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On 27.12.2009 19:17, Roberto Lumbreras wrote:<br>
> Package: network-manager<br>
> Version: 0.7.2-2<br>
> Severity: critical<br>
> Justification: breaks unrelated software<br>
><br>
> After installing network-manager in an updated testing system (but without<br>
> network-manager) it happened the following:<br>
><br>
> -wireless network interface eth1 was taken down (it is "allow-hotplug"<br>
> but it was set up manually), breaking several running applications that<br>
> were using the network<br>
> -hostname was set to `localhost' (not what it is in /etc/hostname),<br>
> breaking all running X applications, as they could no longer access to the<br>
> Xserver. Why the hell a program should change the hostname of a running<br>
> system???<br>
> -network was left down, and nm-applet says wireless device is not ready<br>
><br>
<br>
Hi Roberto,<br>
<br>
could you try the packages from [1] and see if they fix your problem.<br>
See also the relevant upstream commit [2].<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Michael<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/network-manager/" target="_blank">http://debs.michaelbiebl.de/network-manager/</a><br>
[2]<br>
<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=72f936db31f7b6e973d54b82410ce95fdaa6ceed" target="_blank">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=72f936db31f7b6e973d54b82410ce95fdaa6ceed</a><br>
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