I made a "Manual network configuration"...now how do I get rid of it?!

[Derek Broughton]

Michael Bach (gmx) wrote:

> Nolan Check wrote:
>> The question is in the subject line. Here it is again:
>> 
>> I made a "Manual network configuration"...now how do I get rid of it?!
>> 
>> This is using the KNetworkManager thing. It always used to configure
>> automatically. Then, I decided to fiddle around with my network. I
>> experimented using a manual network configuration (there's a thing
>> called "Manual configuration" when you right-click tray icon). Now I set
>> the network back the way it was...but I can't make it automatically
>> configure anymore! Is there any way to switch it back to Automatic?

That's _still_ a problem?  I would have thought the new network-manager
version would have solved that...
>> 
>> 
> Yes, there is.
> The manual configuration writes into /etc/network/interfaces
> In there, comment out everything but the loopback device.
> 
> Then I usually quit and restart the knetworkmanager. However,
> occasionally (and I haven't found a procedure to reliably repeat this
> effect), a residual task named "network-manager" somehow runs with
> eating up to like 80 to 90 percent of the cpu power. I then close
> knetworkmanager, kill this process manually and restart knetworkmanager.

knetworkmanager is just a front-end, so killing it and restarting it
probably doesn't do the job.  After changing network settings, I've always
restarted dbus.
> 
> Another way to restart the network is to simply issue a restart of the
> dbus service: "/etc/init.d/dbus restart". However, on my T23, every dbus
> restart diables the direct rendering for my graphics card.

Ah, well that could be a problem :-(

There should be a way to have dbus just restart network-manager (not
knetworkmanager), but restarting dbus was always easier for me than finding
out how to start a single process under it.
-- 
derek