Comment 5 for bug 1508865

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