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

[Michael Biebl]

severity 436181 important
merge 436181 431427 415891 408292
thanks

Ross Combs schrieb:
> 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
> 

That's a known problem. Please see the mentioned bugnumbers above for
more details.
Cheers,
Michael



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