severity 436181 important merge 436181 431427 415891 408292 thanks Ross Combs schrieb: > Package: network-manager > Version: 0.6.4-6 > > I just did my first fresh install of etch, and everything > looked really good until I rebooted and tried to use the > network. > > I could ping things by IP, but name resolution was out. > I thought, must be an installer bug, so I checked the > resolv.conf, and it only said: > > # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit! > [ five or so blank lines] > > I had never heard of this program before so I double- > checked the network interface configuration, and it had > both the DNS search path and nameservers I wanted to use. > > The man page for NetowrkManager pointed me to nm-tool but > that tool's man page didn't suggest any way of changing > the behavior of the software. nm-tool reported a self- > assigned IP (169.x.x.x) on one eth1 and doesn't seem to > know about eth0. Running ifconfig shows eth0 with the > correct information and eth1 as being down. > > Running route -n shows that the default gateway is not > set up. > > nm-tool --help doesn't work (in fact all command line args > seem to be ignored). > > For now I have removed the package, but it would be nicer > if it worked out of the box. > > System information: > amd64 single processor > two onboard Ethernet devices > eth0 is forcedeth (primary interface) > eth1 is sky2 > static (non-DCHP) IP, static nameserver > > Thanks, > -Ross >
That's a known problem. Please see the mentioned bugnumbers above for more details. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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