On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Ed Sutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Thanks for the responses! > My /etc/network/interfaces file already has the following: > > > # The loopback network interface > > auto lo > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > # The primary network interface > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > > auto eth0 > > I commented out the "auto eth0" line and rebooted. > No change. > Then I put "auto eth0" back in and commented out "allow-hotplug eth0". > Same thing. > > Any other thoughts? >
Try opening gconf-editor, then navigating to /apps/NetworkManagerApplet and check that you have networking_enabled set to true. Cheers, Cassiano Leal