Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #157993
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 157993

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Eduardo Trápani (etrapani-gmail) wrote :

The workaround brings the full contextual menu, but I cannot set the static ip to eth0. If I do, network manager writes to /etc/network/interfaces and I cannot see the modem connections anymore. (home network with static IP on the machine that connects to a pay per minute ADSL).

The weird thing is that the very same configuration works in Ubuntu 7.10!

I tried with the same /etc/network/interfaces (rebooting just to make sure):

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 172.16.2.3
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 172.16.2.1

In Ubuntu 7.10 (network-manager 0.6.5-0ubuntu1) it works perfectly.

In Ubuntu 8.04 (network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5) I lost the contextual menu to access the dsl ... Same 'interfaces' and the same settings in nm.

Maybe this will help solve the issue, if I happen to turn on the "roaming mode" (I should not, I do have a static address) then I get the full contextual menu.