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

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 21:26:35 UTC 2009


>> I just saw that you have a static setup.

>> I have seen (I have forgotten on which list) a case where NM was
>> trying to set up a dhcp configuration (hence the resolv.conf problem)
>> even though /e/n/i was configured for a static ip and the only
>> solution was to purge NM...

> Thanks for that. I had reluctantly come to the same conclusion, but was a
> little nervous about what else I might muck up in the process.

> I tried DHCP. It was even worse. :-(

> It is becoming obvious that NM, this computer and this site cannot happily
> co-exist; and the site and computer are immovable and/or immutable, so NM it
> is that has to go.

You're welcome. The second thing that I do after I install
Kubuntu/Ubuntu is uninstall NM and the purge has never caused me any
problems.




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