[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#517194: Bug#517194: network-manager: Does not recognize/manage wired ethernet card any more

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
> See the README.Debian regarding the new managed mode.
> 
> If you want to keep your devices configured via /e/n/i but managed by NM, then
> use managed=true in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and don't forget
> to kill the running nm-system-settings instance.

I tried to remove the entry in the interfaces file and restarted
network-manager (invoke-rc.d network-manager restart) and it didn't work.
Isn't nm-system-settings restarted at the same time ? 

> Would it help you if I added a few lines in a NEWS.Debian?

Definitely if you plan to break compatibility from one release to the
other. Better would be to auto-add the required setting on upgrade
so that NM continues to manage what it used to manage.

It probably has implications for default desktop installation as well,
they would get the status "offline" back from NM, which is not really
desirable as you know, just because NM would refuse to manage the default
DHCP connection created by d-i.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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