Just to clarify what the behaviour is with 14.04.4, what the behaviour
used to be up till 15.10.

After an OEM install and clicking "Prepare for shipping to end user", on
the next boot 14.04.4 will:

1. Automatically enabled wired networking when connected over Ethernet,
or

2. When not connected over Ethernet and you have WiFi hardware, the 2nd
screen/page will be a prompt to join a WiFi network

When you get to the timezone page/screen, networking is enabled if
you're on Ethernet or have WiFi hardware available and connected to a
WiFi network. When networking is enabled, Ubiquity will use this to
guess your timezone based on IP address. When networking is not
available, the timezone will always be initially set to the default of
US/Eastern.

Currently on 14.04.4 the nm applet is always shown (well, is always
shown when you have at least some networking hardware available... not
sure what it does when there is no networking hardware). Although I
swear that right before 15.10 was released, 14.04.3 would only show the
nm applet when you had WiFi hardware available but weren't on
Ethernet... but I could be mistaken about that.

With up-to-date 15.10 or Xenial, this is the behaviour:

1. The nm applet is never shown

2. When on Ethernet, networking is not enabled; when not on Ethernet but
you have WiFi hardware available, you are not prompted to join a WiFi
network

3. After the language and keyboard selection screen, Ubiquity always
goes directly to the timezone selection screen; as networking is not
enabled, Ubiquity can't guess your timezone, so the timezone will always
be set to the default of US/Eastern

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