On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Hadmut Danisch <had...@danisch.de> wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote: > > Pleaes contribute proactively and confirm that removing stuff from > > there fixes the keyfile for you. Otherwise you waste everyones time > > here. > > > > Removing stuff from /etc/network/interfaces was the first step > I tried for debugging. > > Currently my /e/n/i contains > > auto lo eth0 > > iface lo inet loopback > ... > > iface eth0 inet static > ... > > and nothing else. The problems I have with network-manager on that > machine are related to an GSM device (UMTS mobile phone connected > through USB cable). I also tried removing anything but the lo > configuration, > and it did not fix the problem. > > 1. I do not see how an /e/n/i containing configs for lo and eth0 > could cause nm's trouble with gsm or other connections. > 2. Even if so, nm should behave similar for configurations put in the > user's individual desktop settings or in the system wide settings. > The problem occurs with the system wide setting only. > 3. Even if my configuration was wrong in any way and would make using > GSM connections unusable with nm, then nm should not offer me the > configuration assistant for the mobile phone at login time if a > system wide configuration already exists. > 4. I, btw., cannot understand why killing nm-system-settings causes > nm to take down eth0 even if eth0 is not managed by nm but by > /e/n/i. How can nm be configured to deal with particular types of > interfaces only (e.g. GSM, VPN) and keep it's fingers from eth0? > > This boils down to the problem, that the nm-system-settings manager for > whatever reason does not find its configuration. > > Even if my /e/n/i was wrong or incompatible, nm should behave > consistantly and issue any usefull warning or debugging messages. > > > > > > It is ok to express your opinion, but it does not belong in this > > thread for sure. > > > What would be the appropriate thread to express that nm suffers from > severe mis-design? > > > I do not believe that it was a good idea to use nm as a standard > software tool in ubuntu. This is not a Ubuntu mailing-list. Go troll here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=527365. > > regards > Hadmut > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >
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