[ubuntu-za] Karmic Network Manager borked

[David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk)]

Chris Schoonbee wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> DRL
>>
>>   
>>     
> Just deleting or moving /etc/network/interfaces to another name should 
> do the trick.
> NM works perfectly for me (ethernet, ADSL and 3G) but then I've learnt 
> not to get in its way by
> changing the 'interfaces' file myself (either manually or using other 
> programs like pppoeconf).
> If NM detects that you've changed the file sufficiently then at some 
> point it is going to assume that
> you want to manage things and will back off.  (Service not managed).  
> Unfortunately this tends to
> leave things in a broken state.
>
>   

If Ubuntu get things right (from an Apple perspective), then I should be 
able to delete the  interfaces file, and it will be restored 
automagically to the defaults. However, I not sure if we there yet. You 
also say I should rename it, and so it goes, the multiplicity of Linux. 
I'll back it up and see if I can make head or tale of what is going on. 
Network Manager should be pppoeconf friendly by now, surely?