** Description changed: - feisty fawn herd 3 download 1 February 2007 - After bootup there was a message about a crash, apparently "add/remove" program? - Going on: + Description edited 3/17/07 by Jerry Amos, originator: - Network manager icon on top line, right side just before speaker volume says: - "No Network Connection" - After booted from Live CD, ifconfig did not return an IP. Ping the gateway didn't work. - Network DNS showed IP's from my gateway and from the DSL nameserver, so during boot CDLive did in fact get out on the internet. - From terminal I issued: - dhcp - which then got an ip address, and ping the gateway worked. Firefox connected to ubuntu hence I'm writing this entry. + 1. Hardware and ethernet card run fine on Dapper and Edgy and other + Linux distros and Windows. - Network Manager still says "no connection" which is not correct which is - a bug since I'm making this entry through the connection. + 2. Feisty has Network manager standard. After bootup, Network manager + says: "No Network connection" and indeed Firefox can't find the + internet. + + 3. Issue "sudo dhclient" as per Official Ubuntu Book p.211, eth0 comes + up and Firefox runs fine. + + Bug #1. However, Network Manager still says "no network connection" even + though there is a connection. + + 4. I didn't understand why there was no connection after bootup, so + looking thru the syslog and networking, I see during boot Ubuntu + establishes the network connection and finds the gateway and the + nameserver out on the internet so eth0 is functioning fine. + + Bug #2. Then Network manager decides the Realtek ethernet card (which + is already running), "does not support carrier detect" and disables + eth0. That's the second bug, Network manager should not disable a + perfectly functioning eth0. + + If the Ubuntu goal is for the "ordinary computer desktop user" to "just + run", then Network manager is in this case impeding the goal. My view + as a user, anyway. 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
