[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#576432: network-manager: NM's ifupdown plugin doesn't support manual setting

[Okkel Klaver]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: sid upstream

I'm using /etc/network/interfaces to bring up my wireless network connection.
According to the wpa-supplicant docs at
/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz one of the ways to do so is by
using wpa-supplicant scripts. Here's the corresponding part of my
/etc/network/interfaces:  auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet manual     wpa-driver
wext         wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf  The ifupdown
plugin ignores the 'manual' setting and tries to read the wireless config since
it sees wpa-* lines. This results in an error and causes NM to take control
over the interface. The attached patch fixes this behaviour by giving
interfaces configured as 'manual' the NM_SETTING_MANUAL_SETTING_NAME type.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (700, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.10     high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.84-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.23.6-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.6-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                151-3      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8-1      network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.8-1      network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          151-3      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-2   client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base               2.52-1        A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager               0.3-2         D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.8-1         network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit-1                0.96-1        framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
ii  avahi-autoipd                 0.6.25-3   Avahi IPv4LL network address confi

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