I see the title of the bug has changed. ** Not only does Network Manager report incorrect status, during boot Network Manager itself disabled a perfectly running eth0, complaining something about no carrier detect?
Network Manager should not disable perfectly functioning hardware, a "ordinary desktop computer user" (see Official Ubuntu book). Xubuntu Feisty runs fine, Edgy, Dapper, and Windows run fine. They don't have Network Manager standard. Network Manager has a software design bug telling it to turn the customer's hardware off when it should not, as well as the bug of reporting incorrect status. Feisty Ubuntu and Feisty Kubuntu should "just work" like it does on Feisty Xubuntu - which has no Network Manager (yet, as of 20070315). Of course, Feisty Ubuntu development could decide it isn't interested in customers with those hardware configurations; I'd hope they would want to fix the software instead. Some of us would like to see wider use for Ubuntu, not narrower. Cheers, Jerry -- [feisty fawn] NetworkManager reports incorrect online status https://launchpad.net/bugs/82927 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
