Re: NetworkManager works just fine (was: [ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements)

2009-02-24 Thread Daniel.Li
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 00:18 -0500, Joel Newkirk wrote: > Thanks. With the current Ubuntu there have been problems where NM > tries > to take control of usb0 despite being told not to, or refuses to > follow > manual setting within its own GUI, but also it has had problems where > it > tries to poin

Re: NetworkManager works just fine (was: [ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements)

2009-02-23 Thread Joel Newkirk
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:35:41 +0200 "Patrick C. F. Ernzer" wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:13:17 -0500 > Joel Newkirk wrote: > > [...] > > Has anyone else been successful with Ubuntu NetworkManager recently? > [...] > > Not Ubuntu but NetworkManager in general. As said on the wiki p

NetworkManager works just fine (was: [ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements)

2009-02-23 Thread Patrick C. F. Ernzer
Hello, On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:13:17 -0500 Joel Newkirk wrote: [...] > Has anyone else been successful with Ubuntu NetworkManager recently? [...] Not Ubuntu but NetworkManager in general. As said on the wiki page, one needs to nail down the MAC address for NM to dish out the same IP. I use the

Re: [ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements

2009-02-23 Thread Cédric Berger
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:02, Denis Johnson wrote: > > If anyone has already tried then please chime in. > Indeed with NetworkManager connecting the Freerunner was sometimes a pain. So I switched to wicd a month ago, and now it connects flawlessly... I kept my network config file the same as I

Re: [ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements

2009-02-22 Thread Denis Johnson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Joel Newkirk wrote: > I know several people here have had problems with the NetworkManager > bugs in Intrepid. Although slightly OT in regards to your FR question, I have found many recommend to install Wicd, http://www.wicd.net/ which removes Network Manager and

[ubuntu host] NetworkManager improvements

2009-02-22 Thread Joel Newkirk
I know several people here have had problems with the NetworkManager bugs in Intrepid. I installed Xubuntu 8.10 on my new netbook the other day, upgraded everything, and found that if I used the networkmanager applet to define the interface 'auto usb0' with manual IP of 192.168.0.201/255.255.255.2