I can't do anything but close this bug report as "Invalid", this is not a bug but a design decision. There are other facilities available to provide a similar functionality (/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d) which also runs some of the ifupdown scripts, and we have some support of the most common hooks to ifupdown when running NetworkManager is managed more. Running normally, NetworkManager *will* (and that's expected and wanted behavior) ignore the devices configured in /etc/network/interfaces.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354309 Title: network-manager lacks configuration params Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: network-manager Hi, when moving from manual ifup/down configuration to network-manager when testing jaunty beta I ran into several shortcomings of network- manager (compared to ifup-down) * there are no pre-up/post-down scripts run (this is bug #336736) * network-manager does not tell, which configuration was chosen (e.g. the name of the network configuration), like ifup/down does when running the scripts. Should pass this as a third parameter or as an environment variable (and forward to the /etc/network/ifup.d.. scripts) * with /etc/network/interfaces you can pass additional arbitrary parameters (i.e. environment variables) to the scripts run, where network-manager lacks this ability * ifup/down supports a feature like script-driven selection of the configuration, e.g. with guessnet, which allows automatic selection of the network configuration, depending where you are (e.g. by trying arp requests) regards Hadmut To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/354309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp