Feisty Fawn

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 4/11/07, The enigma <enigma at rick-net.com> wrote:
> 4/11/07
> What's up?
> I just received several downloads updating Feisty Fawn. Upon restart, I
> have an "!" on the networking icon that states there's no network
> connection. I use Ubuntu as a workstation. Of course, I have a
> connection, or else I would not have been able to send this email. I
> have my workstation setup on a Cisco Lynksys router connected directly
> to a high speed cable modem. I have DHCP set to receive an IP. A Windows
> machine is connected to the router as well. (useless information) The
> "!" under the network icon eludes me! Has anyone updated Ubuntu to
> Feisty Fawn, and ran the updates as of this morning (4/11) and have the
> same anomaly?

I had a similar problem on a notebook and a desktop. On the notebook,
it was more of a problem (because it really *wasn't* connecting to any
network). I remembered, dimly, someone mentioning that network-manager
only handles interfaces marked as "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces.
So on a hunch, I edited that file to mark them as auto and the problem
went away.

I'm not sure why I didn't run into this problem before. I suspect the
developers must have had to revert to network-manager's usual
behaviour to avoid clobbering non-managed (e.g., non-auto) interfaces
that may need a complicated configuration.

-Eamonn