nm-connection-editor does not work correctly when you have multiple wired connection profiles with different MAC addresses set (and only one lan card)
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network-manager (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: network-
I have two network adapters - eth0 and wlan0.
In nm-connection-
auto eth0 - connect automatically, system setting, MAC addres 00:19:DB:3B:92:0C (this is the real MAC addres of the lan card), DHCP
home eth0 - connect automatically, MAC address 00:11:2F:74:31:68 (this MAC address is fake), Method - manual (static IP)
The problem is that "home eth0" does not show up in the pop-up menu when I click on the network icon in the notification area.
And when I set the MAC addres of "auto eth0" to 00:11:2F:74:31:68 (the same as "home eth0") it also does not show up in the pop-up menu. Instead there is a connection named "Auto Ethernet".
This happens on Ubuntu intrepid, the package is network-
why is this wrong with that? for me that looks expected. specifying a mac address will lock that connection to that device ... which implicitly means you have no choice anymore. And when you specify wrong MAC address everywhere its just the "auto ethernet" connection which NM creates when there is no matching connection configured.