I had the very same problem described here after updating to 10.04. lshw -C network was reporting disabled and all enabling option grayed out on the networking applet. NetworkManager.state was also set to false. Changing these did nothing.
However after setting: ifupdown managed=false to true in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf (which I noticed after doing a "/etc/init.d/networking restart") ..and rebooting, network was back up. Mr. Tinsays method did not work for me, being somewhat of a newbie, hope this is related and helps. :) System being a HP DV5 with AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter. -- Networking is disabled on boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524454 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs