On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 13:08 -0400, Gene Czarcinski wrote: > I like a lot about how NetworkManager works. I especially like the way it > handles wireless connects. > > However, there is a NetworkManager "feature" that is extremely annoying: > creating new/additional device entries in its list of devices ... sometimes > one or more additional entries with the same name and sometimes "Auto eth_" > entries.
Which new/additional device entries and what are their names? When this happens, can you run 'nm-tool' for me and paste the output in here? The "Auto eth_" entries are there so that you can connect to *something* by clicking on it even when there's configuration defined. Otherwise, you'd have nothing in the menu and no way to connect the device. There are a few corner cases where more than one could appear, but I haven't seen those in quite a while. > This has become especially annoying with a qemu-kvm guest where on of the > NICs > needs to have "Use this entry for network connections only on its network" > checked ... new entries are created when NetworkManager starts which do not > have the check. > > If there a way to disable this feature? [new/additional entries] Do you have backing system connections for any of these devices? Basically, a fake "auto" connection will be shown for any device that doesn't already have a connection defined either in GConf or via system-settings (/etc/network/interfaces for Debian/Ubuntu, ifcfg for suse/fedora, and /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections for all distros depending on the plugin that's been enabled in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf). Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
