Comment 2 for bug 42759

I'm running up-to-date Dapper AMD64 with Firestarter 1.0.3 and NetworkManager 0.6.2. NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher start fine on my system (started by /etc/rc2.d/S12dbus, way ahead of S20firestarter), but you're right - apparently NM doesn't bring the interface up properly for Firestarter.

My primary NIC (eth0) is a wireless Intel card (ipw2200) that connects to a WEP encrypted network. Could this be the reason Firestarter init fails? Both the /etc/init.d/firestarter script and GUI work fine after I log in and enter my Gnome keyring password for nm-applet.

Here's my /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

Here's eth0 ifconfig output right after system boot (note: I added the x's):

eth0
Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xx:xxxx:xxxx/xx Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2747 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:841 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:193 Base address:0x8000 Memory:febfb000-febfbfff

So NetworkManager does bring the interface up on system boot... strange this is not enough for Firestarter.