[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#436181: NetworkManager ignores static configuration

[Ross Combs]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.4-6

I just did my first fresh install of etch, and everything
looked really good until I rebooted and tried to use the
network.

I could ping things by IP, but name resolution was out.
I thought, must be an installer bug, so I checked the
resolv.conf, and it only said:

# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
[ five or so blank lines]

I had never heard of this program before so I double-
checked the network interface configuration, and it had
both the DNS search path and nameservers I wanted to use.

The man page for NetowrkManager pointed me to nm-tool but
that tool's man page didn't suggest any way of changing
the behavior of the software.  nm-tool reported a self-
assigned IP (169.x.x.x) on one eth1 and doesn't seem to
know about eth0.  Running ifconfig shows eth0 with the
correct information and eth1 as being down.

Running route -n shows that the default gateway is not
set up.

nm-tool --help doesn't work (in fact all command line args
seem to be ignored).

For now I have removed the package, but it would be nicer
if it worked out of the box.

System information:
 amd64 single processor
 two onboard Ethernet devices
  eth0 is forcedeth (primary interface)
  eth1 is sky2
 static (non-DCHP) IP, static nameserver

Thanks,
-Ross