On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:36 +0000, Cian Masterson wrote: > > 2009/11/17 Louigi Verona <louigi.ver...@gmail.com>: > > > 2. When I boot the system, NM would try to automatically connect to some > > > Wired connection lfupdown (eth1). It seems to be there by default. Since I > > > have no wired connection, it of course, always fails. I cannot edit it, > > > the > > > Edit button is grayed out when I select this connection. I tried making my > > > DSL connection automatically connect, but then it begins to ask for > > > password > > > and says again "Insufficient privileges" and I have to start over again. > > > Is > > > there any way to remove this default non-existing connection? > > > > This happened to me too, although in my case it was "ifupdown (eth3)". > > This left my laptop with no network access because my wired > > connection (which was eth5 in Jaunty) wasn't being recognised. I > > tried editing /etc/network/interfaces by hand but that didn't work > > either. Long story short I deleted /etc/network/interfaces, rebooted > > the machine and eth5 magically reappeared and everything worked fine > > after that. > > > > Better minds than mine will know what actually happened but I am > > assuming that a missing /etc/network/interfaces forced Ubuntu/Network > > Manager to re-scan the hardware or something. As per usual if you try > > this route yourself I recommend moving /etc/network/interfaces to > > /etc/network/interfaces.broken or something instead of deleting it. > > YMMV but this worked for me. > > If people are running into problems like this on Ubuntu, the best thing > to do to help debug the issue is to either file a bug report in > Launchpad, or grab your /var/log/NetworkManager.log file, or if that > doesn't exist /var/log/daemon.log and send it to this list so that we > can try to figure out what's going on.
we have wiki pages that document what best to attach to ubuntu bugs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingModemmanager if there are suggestsions whatelse to include/how to improve this, let me know. - Alexander _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list