Hi all, Apologies for this one is going to be a long one. I have a single ADSL router/modem and the basic way it works/worked is that the router is the one which does all the authentication, I just need to connect the power cable and I had connectivity.
With the recent updates firefox and pidgin worked intermittently. If I opened up firefox I used to get that firefox is off-line. If I used pidgin, I used to either get IRC or Gmail/XMPP authentication but not both together. What I had to do is click Work off-line in firefox and then refresh all the pages. For pidgin unfortunately, there was no workaround. A temporary workaround that I found out was that if I did sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop and then both firefox and Pidgin used to work for me. This is my /etc/network/interfaces file auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 This is my /etc/Network-Manager/nm-system-settings.conf [main] plugins = ifupdown, keyfile [ifupdown] managed = false Then I found this thread and some people had commented that changing managed from false to true would make things easy or perhaps that was my understanding. The moment I did managed = true my network borked, I wasn't able to do anything. I tried everything sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart but to no avail. as somebody confirmed /etc/resolv.conf is now empty. This is way dirty, I'm sure somebody would say these lines are not necessary but somehow I have now got net connectivity using dhcp cat /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface #auto eth0 inet static #iface eth0 inet static #address 192.168.1.2 #netmask 255.255.255.0 #gateway 192.168.1.1 iface eth0 inet dhcp Now I have few questions a. Is there anyway I can get back to having a static interface without using dhcp or no? b. Could there be something salvaged from /etc/resolv.conf or that is gone forever? (Perhaps there was nothing there, dunno) Looking forward for answers on the same. Btw new versions of network-manager and ifupdown have hit it seems around 6 hours ago. Network Manager 0.7~~svn20081008t224042-0ubuntu2 -- network-manager After reboot network is totally broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279262 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
