[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#465471: Bug#465471: Bug#465471: network-manager: fails to execute my firewall script

[Michael Biebl]

Mark Hedges wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Mark Hedges wrote:
>> # PCI device 0x8086:0x4227 (ipw3945)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1b:77:7c:9a:a5", NAME="eth2"
> 
> I removed ipw3945d, which was still trying to run and failing
> because I've switched to iwl3945 driver, but this line remains the
> same.  The behavior did change slightly in that the network did not
> try to configure after boot (resource temporarily unavailable), but
> waited until I logged in and chose my wireless network, although it
> still ran my iptables script, which of course screwed it up and
> caused all kinds of weird log messages as avahi went nuts and tried
> to send DNS requests through lo and eth1.  Now for some reason it is
> trying to start network services and do DHCP at boot again.  Is
> there some package doing that which I should remove?

Check, if you have configured your network interfaces in
/etc/network/interfaces.
If you want NM to manage your devices, comment out or remove everything
besides lo! (please don't remove the lo entry)

> The behavior is the same under the stock 2.6.24-686-1 kernel.
> 
> NM never worked when I used ipw3945, instead then I had to go to
> Gnome > System > Administration > Network to turn it on by hand, but
> it worked reliably.
> 
> Mark


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