I think I know what's the problem here. There was this famous bug #289466 where the network-manager didn't appear in some cases. That bug was fixed so nm-applet appeared for me but it couldn't do anything, everything was grayed out. I figured if I delete /etc/network/interfaces then nm-applet is working fine. Deleting that file seems to fix this bug too, configuring network devices takes zero seconds now even after making back the changes of "timeout" in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf . So I think the people with this issue also have the issue that nm-applet can't be used for anything.
-- Ubuntu 8.10 booting hangs for a while on "configuring network interfaces" on iwl3945 and iwl4965 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293023 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
