<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 1/13/2013 7:01 AM, Chris Green wrote: <div class="moz-forward-container"> <blockquote cite="mid:20130113120117.GA733@chris" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 03:00:06PM -0500, John Hupp wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> On 1/12/2013 10:27 AM, Chris Green wrote: </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[snip] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> However it works fine when run as the root user. A further symptom of the same thing (I think) is that the Network Manager applet is non-functional, the icon is there on the panel but it just tells me "Network Manager is not running...". However Network Manager is running and I do have an internet connection. Did you configure the network using Network Manager or editing /etc/network/interfaces? If the latter then my experience is that Network Manager won't work right. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">It has probably been done by a mix of Network Manager and direct editing over quite a long time. If this is the cause do you have any idea how to get back to a "completely controlled by Network Manager" situation? </pre> </blockquote> In /etc/network/interfaces, comment out all the stanzas except the first one for the loopback adapter. If nothing else has been changed, Network Manager should then take over. But for my purposes I also needed this work-around for one bit of bad behavior by a dnsmasq TFTP server: In /etc/dnsmasq.d/network-manager replace the "bind-interfaces" line with a "bind-dynamic" line. You may not need this. </div> </body> </html>