Problem with Network Manager

[Miles Lane]

On 9/30/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 14:07:22 +0200
> "Ben Edwards (lists)" <lists at videonetwork.org> wrote:
>
> > Been trying to get network manager working.  I have the applet but when
> > I click on it it only shows wired network, and this is only if I start
> > eth0 manually.  Currently I have eth0 and ra0 in my interfaces file
> > (neither with auto).  I have also started er0 and it does not show up.
>
> Network Manager doesn't play nice with /etc/network/interfaces :)
> You need to comment out all interfaces in that file except for the "lo"
> stanza which normally looks like
>
> #loopback
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
>
> >
> > Also looking a http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ half way
> > down the page there is a  screenshot showing a applet with a drop down
> > panel showing a list of wireless networks and there signal strength.
> > The applet I have had do drop down;(
>
> Probably because your interfaces file is confusing Network Manager,
> although I might be wrong...
> >
> > I then installed Wireless Assistant and this shows 4 wireless networks
> > in range.
>
> Well, you can either use the "traditional" /etc/network/interfaces
> approach, or the Network Manager approach - but not both at once. Most of
> the other tools, as far as I know, use the older method.
>
> Things I discovered the hard way:
>
> 1) Make sure that your card supports/ will work with wpasupplicant if you
> are using the latest Network Manager and nm-applet packages
>
> 2) You can sometimes persuade N-M to behave by running
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart
>
> then starting nm-applet
>
> (Provided that you've removed or commented out the entries
> in /etc/network/interfaces as above)
>
> 3) Check that the "wireless enabled" is ticked when you right click on
> nm-applet
>
> 4) If N-M has one of its periodic attacks of amnesia, sometimes clicking
> the drop down ( left click on applet) and selecting the alternative
> interface  will convince it to remember that wireless is present ( or
> wired, if that is connected)
>
> If it simply can't remember ( it happens periodically that it has these
> little tantrums ), you can try "Connect to other wireless network" and
> re-enter your essid and pass etc. - this sometimes helps to wake it up,
> I've found, after which it asks for the keyring password again, and decides
> with some reluctance that a nearby access point exists after all ...
>
> 5) There's a fair bit of useful stuff on
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/NetworkManager
>
> 6) Try to keep a sense of humour. Network Manager seems to be very much a
> work in progress ;-)
>
> When it works, it's very nice. It's a bit temperamental at times, it
> seems...

Thanks,

This helped me get NetworkManager working on my fresh Ubuntu 6.10 Beta install.