Network Manager and ADSL Dynamic IP

[L M Nicolosi]

Sorry for the entry.

Its working fine.

Boot up today and it suddenly came to life. Maybe the latest upgrades 
had something to do with it.

Tks,

Lucio

NoOp wrote:
> On 03/29/2007 10:06 PM, L M Nicolosi wrote:
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>> A couple of days ago upgraded to Feisty and can't auto connect to ADSL 
>> provider anymore.
>>
>> Network Manager reports DNS correctly (probably from 
>> System/Administration/Network) but assigns an IP for a (non existent) 
>> local net such as: 192.168.1.10 / 192.168.1.63.
>>
>> After "poff dsl-provider" and "pon dsl-provider" in terminal, connection 
>> is restored and dynamic IPs are correctly assigned such as:  
>> 201.1.152.58 (local) / 200.100.11.252 (remote).
>>
>> Plog and Ifconfig confirm true net status.
>>
>> Network Manager keeps reporting active network but with the same fake 
>> local IPs.
>>
>> Kept  etc/network/interfaces trimmed to the minimum with no reference to 
>> eth, but it didn't seem to make any difference but clear the 
>> System/Administration/Network/WiredConnections option.
>>
>> Previous 6.10 version was working perfectly with pppoeconf.
>>
>> Did not find this bug reported anywhere. Maybe anything related to 
>> previous scripts left by 6.10 install?
>>
>>
>> L M Nicolosi
>>
>>     
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> Today's updates allowed me to remove network-manager and
> network-manager-gnome _without_ uninstalling ubuntu-desktop. Apparently
> they've been unbundled from the meta package.
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> Reconfigured my static wired IP's in System|Administration|Networking,
> check to make sure all was working, rebooted (hard boot) and viola! all
> of my networking works again at startup :-)
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