Networking w/o Network-mangler?

[Donkey Hottie]

On 20.6.2010 20:30, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Donkey Hottie <donkey at fred.pp.fi> wrote:
>>
>> I have Karmic-Koala under VirtualBox, and wired networking.
>>
>> It has this NetworkManager, and it seems to fail. First thing after a
>> reboot is to restart network-manager. Hate that.
>>
>> I'm more used to Debian, and it does not have anything like
>> NetworkManager, it just works.
>>
>> Debian has /etc/network/interfaces and the network gets loaded after
>> that file. Ubuntu had nothing except lo interface there.
>>
>> I purged network-manager, and added eth0 into /etc/network/interfaces,
>> but that was a miserable failure. No network.
>>
>> How to get a wired network into Ubuntu without NetworkManager. I do not
>> want to manage any networks, I just want it up!
>>
>> Had to restore the Ubuntu virtual machine from backup, as I somehow
>> could not even reinstall Network-Mangler from .iso, dunno why.
>>
>> I do not have WiFi or anything like that, and I want to get rid of mangler.
> 
> Of course Debian has NM! (If you are running GNOME.)
> 
> What did you add to e/n/i?
> 

I added there

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

But now I just upgraded to 10.04 LTS, so maybe it works better. Dunno,
the virtual machine is now offline for backup.

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