nm-applet 0.6.5 does not identify NICs

[egd]

If you have multiple NICs either built into the motherboard or installed via add-in cards, the applet does not provide any distinguishing name/ characteristics to enable a user to identify which of the NICs they're trying to configure - all wired NICs are simply presented as "Wired Connection". This makes for a very frustrating time where more than one NIC is in use and needs to be configured and generally involves a process of elimination until one guesses which NIC is presented 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc in the list of NICS. To address the issue, why not include the NIC's hardware descriptor in the list eg. in one of my PCs I have an add-in SMC NIC and an on board Intel NIC. Looking at hardware info it is clear Ubuntu can identify the nics by manufacturer - why not carry that info through to the applet so that users can easily determine which NIC it is they're wanting to configure.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the /var/log/syslog to your bug report as an attachment? Also you can submit more information for it by looking to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingNetworkManager , Thanks in advance.

[egd (spampit)]

/var/log/syslog attached.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We are wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try it with the latest Ubuntu version? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Closing the bug since no further information has been provided.