Networking w/o Network-mangler?

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Donkey Hottie <donkey at fred.pp.fi> wrote:
> 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

Change "allow-hotplug" to "allow-auto" or "auto".