PARTLY SOLVED Re: ethernet connections in Karmic - how do I tame network manager?

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Wed Dec 9 19:11:35 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Lisi wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009 17:44:37 Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> > Glad to hear that. Does that mean everything is running properly
> > now?
> 
> No - it is still not starting automatically on boot up.  Though
>  once I run $sudo ifup eth0
> it is fine.  So the problem must lie in the start-up.  NM
>  obviously wants the network started after KDE has booted up so
>  that it (NM) can control the network.

Are you sure networking is started at boot-up? If nothing else works, 
you can try adding "ifup eth0" to your /etc/rc.local

> Google suggests that NM does in fact alter some of the init
>  scripts.  So I shall purge NM and hope to sort everything else
>  out.
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't know what some of the files ought to look
>  like in the first place!  I have never needed to dive in before. 
>  Those two files that you sent me off-list will be very useful.  A
>  friend also suggested that I should compare with a known-working
>  Debian set up.  NM won't have been near that!

:-) It might be due to some strange hardware, so the most reliable 
comparison would be from a Debian unstable installed on the same 
machine.

  --Reinhold




More information about the kubuntu-users mailing list