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

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Michael Biebl wrote:
> It's a bit more complicated than that. With 0.7, NM can handle a lot more
> scenarios like it did with 0.6, e.g. it finally supports static configurations.
> 
> So if I set "managed=true" for nm-system-settings, static configurations in
> /e/n/i, which were previously ignored by NM, are now managed by NM.
> That's going to change the behaviour to previous NM, one way or the other.

So just add managed=true for the cases where NM did manage the connection
(i.e. for dhcp option-less entries) and not for the rest.

> > 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.
> 
> Yeah, I think I'm leaning towards enabling "managed=true" by default. There are
> still some problems with that though, (like the device being brought up twice
> during boot, first by ifupdown and second by NM).

Yes, but that's already the case now. Maybe ifupdown could be smarter… but
that requires coordination with his maintainer.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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