network manager applet whows red "x" even when network connected

[jerryb]

After doing nightly updates on my 8.10 beta install (7-oct-08), the network manager applet shows a red "X" even though the network is connected.

jerryb1@ubuntu:~$ apt-cache policy network-manager
network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.7~~svn20081004t225044-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[jerryb (gerald-britton)]

Not an issue in 8.10 today

[Michele Mangili (mangilimic)]

Thanks for your quick response!

I'm closing this bug report because of your last comment regarding this not being an issue for Intrepid Ibex.

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[pointer (rohit-ven)]

I seem to be facing the same issue. I Installed intrepid yesterday. I have installed all the updates so should be having the latest packages. Was using hardy till the day before and had no such problems with it.

[Bob Kline (bkline)]

I am confirming that this behavior is still present in Jaunty.

network-manager:
  Installed: 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[sciuro (sciurognathi)]

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.