[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#491826: Bug#491826: Upstream bug report

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > There is already an upstream bug report for this:
> >
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418745
> >
> > Upstream doesn't seem to be interested in fixing false network online
> > status reports or even deleting default routes in that case. NM
> > didn't do the later here yet tough.
>
> I agree, that this situation is less than ideal (and thanks for the
> nice writeup). With 0.7 the situation will be better, as NM can handle
> more different use case (static ip etc.), but the underlying problem
> still exists.
>
> A short term fix could be, to assume the network status to be "online"
> for unmanaged devices, rather than offline. This way apps wouldn't go
> into offline mode. What you will get though eventually, is unsuccessful
> network connection attempts (but that wouldn't be a regression with
> regard to old ifupdown).
>
> Ubuntu ships a patch for exactly that, and I could pull it from there

Sounds like a plan! Currently I just disabled Network Manager altogether. 
I just use it when I use wifi and at home and work I have port 
replicators for my ThinkPads.

Ciao,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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