internet in virtual machine not running

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 00:41 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> > Tapas Mishra wrote:
> >> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Christopher Chan
> >> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> >>>> It appears inspite of uninstalling network manager gnome it is there
> >>>> and doing what ever it wants.It has changed the resolv.conf file
> >>>> definition also.
> >>>>
> >>> Take a look in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
> >>>
> >>> /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart after setting managed=false
> >>>
> >> What does managed=false do?
> >>
> >
> > Tell NetworkManager NOT to mess around when interfaces are brought up or
> > down. That managed= setting is under the [ifupdown] section right?
> >
> > You can alternatively just completely remove NetworkManager. 'apt-get
> > purge network-manager'
> Yes this was helpful and it worked.

If you can access Synaptic, it also has that feature. Ric


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