[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#505156: network-manager auto keyword in interfaces file fails

[network-manager.to.peejay at spamgourmet.com]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: normal


Example 3 in the documentation at
/usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian says:

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
-> This device is *not* managed by NM because it is not set to "auto".

To test this:
I run:

/etc/init.d/network-manager stop
/etc/init.d/networking stop
/etc/init.d/networking start

wlan0 does not come up (ifconfig | grep wlan0     shows nothing)

Then if I run
/etc/init.d/network-manager start
wlan0 does come up (ifconfig | grep wlan0    shows something).

So either the documentation is wrong or it is a bug.

This may be related to bug #408333


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-5      D-Bus interface to the ISC
DHCP cl
ii  hal                           0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure
netw
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic
control too
ii  libc6                         2.7-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-4    simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging
syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime
libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error
values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-6   Hardware Abstraction Layer -
share
ii  libiw29                       29-1.1     Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                        1.1-2      library for dealing with
netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-2    network management framework
(shar
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init
scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.4-2    Client support for WPA and
WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework
(GNOM

network-manager suggests no packages.

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