Comment 105 for bug 548992

I wanted to extend my last comment (104) in light of 102 and many others.

I removed network manager but did NOT install wicd. For a stationary installation with a permanent
connection, you just don't need a network manager of any kind. You can configure networks the old fashioned
way, by directly editing /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf. In fact, for fixed installations,
i think this is preferable ... there is less to go wrong. As you probably know, network manager itself
messes with resolv.conf. I don't know what wicd does, but it is often the case that more "modern" tools
mess with the text configuration files that are at the core of linux configurations. These GUI tools are convenient, but to the extent that they hide what is really going on, I find them a distraction.

From a bug fix point of view, the modprobe.d/options.conf fix is probably more illuminating, but for a user
who just wants to get going, I advocate getting rid of network manager. It has bit me before
and is often not necessary.