I believe i experienced this problem on my HP G72 laptop with Kubuntu 11.10 as I ran the gui installer (as I needed to set up encryption) with a wireless connection.
I can confirm that following the steps suggested by Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs) above, I was able to resolve this problem. Ruth -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280417 Title: Network Manager claims devices are unmanaged Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Network Manager's applet shows no connection. Clicking on it shows that all interfaces are in "unmanaged" mode so that Network Manager has no control over them. This occurs without the user making any changes to the interfaces. User has not manually set the devices into unmanaged mode. How to correct it in the Network Manager -> Edit Connections dialog is unclear. Details: $ uname -a Linux Lenovo 2.6.27-6-generic #1 SMP Tue Oct 7 04:15:04 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /etc/network/interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp auto eth0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wireless-key XXXXXXXXX wireless-essid XXXXXXXXXX $ apt-cache policy network-manager network-manager: Installed: 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/280417/+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
