On Nov 24, 4:18 pm, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jeff... > > From my original post: > > > System/Preferences/Network Configuration GUI tool fails with the following > > message: > > > > Updating connection failed: nm-ifupdown-connection.c.82 - connection update > > not supported (read only) > > > > So now that the lovely clever gui tool doesn't work, what do I do next? go > back > to the old fashioned config files that I was comfortable with? I can't because > they are now mysteriously over-written or silently ignored! >
If it comes to that, there must be a way to disable network manager? Not saying you should, but I confess to having done this when I got a new laptop earlier this year. NM was working on my system but occasionally it wouldn't and when this happened I was hosed especially with wireless. I think what I did was to go into /etc/dbus-1/event.d/25NetworkManager and 26NetworkManagerDispatcher and disable the start scripts (ubuntu 8.04) That's probably totally totally wrong but it works for me. My resolv.conf hasn't been eaten since the 29-Mar-08. I have a shell script for switching between wireless and wired modes (involving wpa_supplicant etc) on top of the ifup-ifdown-etc/network/ interfaces stuff. -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
