How the applet NetworkManager works?

[Derek Broughton]

Dick Davies wrote:

> On 24/04/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Byron Poland wrote:
>>
>> > To fully utilize Network Manager in Ubuntu, you have to comment out
>> > all of your network interfaces except lo in /etc/network/interfaces.
>>
>> That's a horrible bug.  Especially since every other package in
>> interface-land is adding stuff to interfaces.  At the very least,
>> network-manager needs to _ignore_ interfaces, rather than simply failing
>> to start.
> 
> It does'n't fail to start.
> It just does'nt mess with those interfaces since it assumes you want
> to use the standard way of managing those. That sounds fair enough to me.

If you have _anything_ about wireless interfaces (perhaps not wired ones),
it _does_ fail to start.  /usr/sbin/NetworkManager does not run.  Now,
perhaps it's because it finds no interfaces it should manage - but if so,
it should exit with a message, instead of just failing.  

Also, there's no documentation that you have to comment out the network
interfaces, nor is there any indication of how you should replace the
features that are _in_ interfaces, so everybody who uses this hits the same
problem.
-- 
derek