[ubuntu-za] Karmic Network Manager borked

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
> Well that didn't take very long. It's Wednesday. I installed Karmic on 
> Saturday and was only remarking about the ethO in Network Manager being 
> confusing to some Windows converts. Now its decided to go on strike. 
> Can't gany network information. My setting has literally disappeared, 
> and the backup setting which is there, isn't working either. All I see 
> is: "Service not managed"
> 
> Have I got to use the terminal to get a link up an running? Any ideas 
> how to restore Network Manager to its former glory?

Did you perhaps run pppoeconf or something that modifies
/etc/network/interfaces? For me network-manager only works if there's
only the following two lines in the file:
"""
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
"""

-Jonathan