Re: NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Campbell
> It's better to discuss Ubuntu NM problems in the Ubuntu bugtracker since > Ubuntu makes quite a few intrusive changes to Networkmanager. The > problems most (if not all) Ubuntu users are currently facing is due to > these changes (and because they don't read the notification bubble on > updates).

Re: autoip config option?

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Niemueller
Nikolaus Filus wrote: > Hi, > > before any comments, some questions from a not-so-well-informed-one: > - For which scenarios assigns nm an auto-ip? If no IP configuration can be obtained from other sources (DHCP). > - Where is auto-ip useful? In any scenario where machines on the local-link nee

Re: NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Dennis Kaarsemaker
On di, 2006-02-21 at 14:39 -0400, Ian Campbell wrote: > Has anyone else had problems with NetworkManager on Ubuntu Dapper? It's better to discuss Ubuntu NM problems in the Ubuntu bugtracker since Ubuntu makes quite a few intrusive changes to Networkmanager. The problems most (if not all) Ubuntu us

Re: autoip config option?

2006-02-21 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hi, before any comments, some questions from a not-so-well-informed-one: - For which scenarios assigns nm an auto-ip? - Where is auto-ip useful? - is it possible to differentiate between an AP and a Adhoc-net? On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:43, Tim Niemueller wrote: > > To summarize: > - Maybe op

Re: NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Nathaniel McCallum
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 13:12 -0700, Mike Bydalek wrote: > Ian Campbell wrote: > > Has anyone else had problems with NetworkManager on Ubuntu Dapper? > > > I did a fresh install from Flight 3 (applied all the updates), and have > no problems with network-manager at all. The only thing I did notic

Re: NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Mike Bydalek
Ian Campbell wrote: > Has anyone else had problems with NetworkManager on Ubuntu Dapper? > I did a fresh install from Flight 3 (applied all the updates), and have no problems with network-manager at all. The only thing I did notice was that this weekend I updated from network-manager_0.5.1-0ubu

Re: autoip config option?

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Niemueller
Rémi Cardona wrote: > I was thinking instead of having yet another icon over the signal bars > (with vpn, it's getting quite crowded down in the notification area) > maybe the bars could be a different color, say dark gray, instead of the > default blue (on gentoo, I don't know if other distros' t

Re: NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Christian Güdel
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:39 -0400, Ian Campbell wrote: > Has anyone else had problems with NetworkManager on Ubuntu Dapper? Yes, I updated about one hour ago (just Dapper update, no Breezy -> Dapper), and networkmanager got broken. > This is a fresh, updated install of Ubuntu. I installed the Net

Re: autoip config option?

2006-02-21 Thread Rémi Cardona
Tim Niemueller wrote: To summarize: - Maybe option to turn AutoIP off, maybe a hidden GConf key This is a good idea. - Have a visual indication for AutoIP being used. I was thinking instead of having yet another icon over the signal bars (with vpn, it's getting quite crowded down in the n

Re: NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Matthew Tippett
I believe the packages on Dapper are currently not compatible with the dhcp-client paramaters that NetworkManager invokes. Regards, matthew Ian Campbell wrote: Has anyone else had problems with NetworkManager on Ubuntu Dapper? I figured I'd take a look at it, but it doesn't seem to be cooper

Re: autoip config option?

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Niemueller
Ben Roberts wrote: > Is there a case for a configuration option to disable autoip? It > drives me absolutely nuts ... Maybe we could have this as a "hidden" GConf key, if we don't want to expose the in the UI. > I understand that this enables a minimal network to be set up > automatically in the

NetworkManager on ubuntu Dapper?

2006-02-21 Thread Ian Campbell
Has anyone else had problems with NetworkManager on Ubuntu Dapper? I figured I'd take a look at it, but it doesn't seem to be cooperating. This is a fresh, updated install of Ubuntu. I installed the NetworkManager package, its requirements, and the nm-applet package. NetworkManager doesn't see my

re: autoip config option?

2006-02-21 Thread Ben Roberts
Is there a case for a configuration option to disable autoip? It drives me absolutely nuts ... I understand that this enables a minimal network to be set up automatically in the case when there is no DHCP server present, but this is *surely* a relatively rare use case. In the majority of instances

Re: Can NetworkManager work with a static ip?

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Jason Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This has been covered many times on the list. To look over the previous > discussion, try a google search like this: > "site:mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/ static ip" It looks like NM just parses the distro config files fo

Re: Can NetworkManager work with a static ip?

2006-02-21 Thread Jason Martens
Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote: Can NetworkManager work with a static ip or is this defeating the purpose? I'm trying to use it on my workstation which is configured with a static ip address. When I turn on the NetworkManager service, it switches to using dhcp. This has been covered many times on

Re: Unknown problem with NetworkManager, No devices found.

2006-02-21 Thread Johan Christiansen
Dan Williams wrote: > Sure; if you have the 'strace' program, you could use that to figure out > what NM is doing. When you run NM, open a new terminal and do: > > strace -p `pidof NetworkManager` > > laptop ~ # strace NetworkManager --no-daemon execve("/usr/sbin/NetworkManager", ["NetworkManag

indication of auto-ip connections in nm-applet

2006-02-21 Thread Nikolaus Filus
Hello, I'm sitting in the cafeteria of my university, where the signal strength of our wlan is only 30%. nm-applet tried to connect and showed me the bars indicating a working connection ... Wrong! :( In this situation I noticed, there should be some indication of a non-working connection (whe