On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:39:49 +0100 gazz wrote: > > The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now > using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the > network manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to > remove the network manager and put wicd on instead. OK, now I could > set up the wireless access point, all well and good. > > It seems that the sync for Ubuntu One and Dropbox need the network > manager as both are acting crazy this morning. UbuntuOne can't connect > at all and Dropbox is partially syncing. Anyway wicd can't seem to > connect to the wifi at my workshop either. > > Tried to remove wicd - no luck with apt-get. Had to purge it and > reinstall network-manager with aptitude. Then the nm-applet indicator > was missing from the tray and no way to interact with the network > manager short of cli. Did killall nm-applet and then started it again > - now it's hanging complaining: > ** (nm-applet:1998: DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a > disconnect 0 > > When I restart networking, it's using DHCP Client to reconnect. > > I can find other people with similar issue but no-one seems to know > what's going on. The only person who seems to have solved it > reinstalled 10.04 from scratch! > > So whenever I want to configure a router, I'll have to reinstall > 10.04???? There has to be an easier fix? I frequently need to install > routers . . .
In my previous job I would routinely need to do the following to avoid a similar situation: + kill the nm-applet + disable (temporarily) the Network Manager (sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop) + set IP manually or run dhclient manually When all finished, clear the manual IP address (if any), restart network-manager and re-run nm-applet and all was happy again. Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/