Posting on ubuntuforums.org gave me the fix. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3663262
Marc gave the following information: -- NetworkManager left my Ultra5 with Gutsy completely unusable, hogging all of it's scarce CPU ressources. With synaptic, I removed packages network-manager and network-manager-gnome. Removing Network-Manager like this is probably only quick&dirty fix; I imagine that the proper solution to this problem has to do with reconfiguring/rearranging some udev or dbus/hal related scripts - but I wanted the network back on my U5 (as in: I want it now!) and that was a way to do it. In the end, I had to edit /etc/network/interfaces -- So it seems like networkmanager has some issues running on the SPARC platform -- Ultra60 SPARC Ethernet issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
