Oct
26
2009
NetworkManager bug fixed on Ubuntu 9.10 Release Candidate
Ubuntu 9.10 alpha and beta release users may have noticed something very wrong with its NetworkManager. On those releases, NetworkManager won’t let the user edit default network settings through the NetworkManager applet even with sufficient privileges. Instead, NetworkManager will just revert the settings. Thus, deeming it impossible to set a static IP address using NetworkManager applet.
This bug has now been fixed on the version of NetworkManager preinstalled in Ubuntu 9.10 release candidate. This means users won’t have to worry about the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 release.
NetworkManager is not maintained and developed by Ubuntu.
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Conrad Miguel E. Gozalo is a 17-year old guy from General Santos City, Philippines. He is currently taking up his BS Computer Science at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is a proud Linux user since August 2008. He is also a big fan of Free and Open Source Software. Know more about him on the 
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October 26, 2009 at 4:36 pm
thank you for the info…
October 27, 2009 at 3:41 am
[...] Ubuntu 9.10 alpha and beta release users may have noticed something very wrong with its NetworkManager. On those releases, NetworkManager won’t let the user edit default network settings through the NetworkManager applet even with sufficient privileges. More here [...]
October 27, 2009 at 5:42 am
Ok, but in Karmic RC, PPPOE in NM it’s still broken.
And there are only two days left!!
October 27, 2009 at 9:57 am
WTF. Haven’t tried PPPoE yet on NetworkManager. It’s actually GNOME’s bug, not Ubuntu. But I hope GNOME will cooperate with Ubuntu’s big day this time.
November 7, 2009 at 3:46 am
Hi, folks…
I’ve recently upgraded my desktop distro from The Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04) to the new release 9.10, The Karmic Koala, perhaps the best Linux ever. Congrats Canonical for this fine free OS and free services (I performed my upgrade online, in few hours, downloading and installing over 1,400 files without only one problem, using a DSL Internet connection). Then I downloaded the live CD.
The only problem is that both upgrade & CD has a bug in network-manager and the user cannot access the Web simply clicking its icon in the Gnome panel at head. But I solved this inconvenience quickly:
First of all I removed the network-manager:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove network-manager
Then, I performed the steps below:
Configuring resolve.conf with two DNS from my DSL provider:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ chmod a+r /etc.resolv.conf
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/resolv.conf
My new resolv.conf is:
nameserver 200.149.55.140
nameserver 200.165.132.147
Editing network interface for automatic Internet connection at boot:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
…and y new interfaces is:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto dsl-provider
iface dsl-provider inet ppp
pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up # line maintained by pppoeconf
provider dsl-provider
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
Note that you want not an automatic connection at startup you can do the boot without it and then connect manually doing:
macarlo@macarlo-desktop:~$ sudo pppoeconf
…this will detect your eth, then you have to insert the user name and password used for your ISP and you are done!
December 28, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Could you help me, please?
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