On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:36 +0000, Cian Masterson wrote: > 2009/11/17 Louigi Verona <[email protected]>: > > 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. Especially int he case of PPPoE/DSL, to debug further you can: 1) stop NetworkManager 2) as root, run NetworkManager like this: NM_PPP_DEBUG=1 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon 3) try to reproduce the issue 4) send the NetworkManager debug output to this list Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
