Comment 134 for bug 105234

If what you say is true, then there is indeed no bug in Network
Manager. Rather, there is a serious design flaw. In no circumstance
should NM report that there are no active network connections when
indeed said connections are active and healty.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:17 AM, sciuro<email address hidden> wrote:
> Network Manager functionality is changed!
> Read about it in /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian.
>
> In short, if interface is (properly or not) configured in /etc/network/interfaces file, Network Manager will not manage it. If there are no other interfaces for NM to manage, NM thinks that there are no network connections.
> You may try to comment out any configuration of eth0 in interfaces file, so network manager picks it up for management.
>
> There is also solution to put NM in managed mode as mentioned in
> README.Debian.
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Triaged => Invalid
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
>     Assignee: (unassigned) => sciuro (sciurognathi)
>
> --
> Network manager says disconnected but is connected and working
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/105234
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>

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Gerald Britton