if network cable not plugged in on boot, no address ever acquired

[Dan Kegel]

On my laptop, the 100baseT plug broke,
so half the time when I boot, the plug has come loose.
Dapper flight 4 can't cope with this!
I have to manually down and up the interface
because gnome-netstatus-applet isn't smart enough to
realise it should get an address.
(I guess I should build it from source and debug this
myself, but touching Gnome is a scary prospect.)

[Samuel Lidén Borell (samuellb)]

Maybe this should be added to hotplug instead of the GNOME applet?

Anyway, I've submitted a feature request to GNOME:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340543

[Samuel Lidén Borell (samuellb)]

Bug #33447 is probably related to this bug

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

linking the report, thanks.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

(n-m is capable of dealing with this in recent supported Ubuntu releases)

[Dan Kegel (dank)]

This works in Hardy.