"Auto eth0" connection is available but not configurable

[Uqbar]

Binary package hint: kdebase-runtime

The tray icon widget shows an "Auto eth0" connection profile, but there is no way to configure it, for example, to disable it o to change it's settings.
It should be.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: kdebase-runtime 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 20 16:53:11 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdebase-runtime

[Arnaud Soyez (weboide)]

Can you attach or copy and paste the contents of the following file /etc/network/interfaces to this bug report?

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

Here it comes:
----
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
----
This has been created this way tby the 10.10 Kubuntu installation.

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

Along with this (stupid) bug there is also the fact that if you disable the (wireless) network, it will be back enabled at the next reboot.

[Uqbar (uqbar)]

This stupid bug is only happening to the KDE plasma-widget-networkmanagement.
Under GNOME it's perferctly working.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-widget-networkmanagement/+bug/705332 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. What's been also reported there, is that under KDE there's no "system connection" possible, only connections local to each user.

[Rogi (rogi)]

It is necessary to install network-manager-gnome on Kubuntu to edit "Auto eth0" connection.

[Rogi (rogi)]

Still no changes in 11.04. It is just necessary that KDE plasma-widget-networkmanagement adds “no-auto-default=<hwaddr>,<hwaddr>,...” to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf like nm-connection-editor in Gnome (see man-page for NetworkManager.conf). Or just disable default wired connections with “no-auto-default=*” for Kubuntu.