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

[Michael Biebl]

Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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 ? 

No, it isn't. nm-system-settings is a dbus activated service (much like
nm-applet, just without GUI).

>> 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's a bit more complicated than that. With 0.7, NM can handle a lot more
scenarios like it did with 0.6, e.g. it finally supports static configurations.

So if I set "managed=true" for nm-system-settings, static configurations in
/e/n/i, which were previously ignored by NM, are now managed by NM.
That's going to change the behaviour to previous NM, one way or the other.

> 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.

Yeah, I think I'm leaning towards enabling "managed=true" by default. There are
still some problems with that though, (like the device being brought up twice
during boot, first by ifupdown and second by NM).



Cheers,
Michael

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