Could you please open an upstream bug report about this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=NetworkManager
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager-applet in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/393586 Title: Network manager does not allow the speed of a wired ethernet connect to be set Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: As far as I can tell, ethernet cards usually behave just fine if allowed to autonegotiate speed and duplex. Sometimes, though, this doesn't work. A user should be able to force, for example, 10BaseT/half duplex for their ethernet connection(s) by right clicking on the network-manager applet, going to Edit Connections..., the Wired tab, editing the interface in question, and finding the option in, say, the "Wired" tab on the "Editing Auto eth0" window that pops up. I ran into this when dealing with an old wired network at work (a university). Autonegotiation fails under all operating systems and all ethernet cards (that I tried), and the well known solution in other OSes is to manually set the speed/duplex to 10BaseT/half. In OS X, e.g., this is right where you'd expect it, near the options to setup your wired connection manually instead of using DHCP. On my ubuntu jaunty system, though, I had to do sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 10 duplex half then put it in my /etc/rc.local to make it persist. Wouldn't this fit in just fine in nm-applet? So for completeness: $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 $ apt-cache policy network-manager-gnome network-manager-gnome: Installed: 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2 Expected to find options to set ethernet speed/duplex via network manager, didn't find it. Had to do it via command line. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/393586/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
