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Re: network-manager not connecting automatically anymore



On Thursday 11 February 2010 17:39:31 Felix H. Dahlke wrote:
> I've made some progress: After I commented the following two lines
> mentioning eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, network-manager works just
> as expected!
>
> allow-hotplug eth0
> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>
> What should /etc/network/interfaces contain about eth0 if I'm using
> network-manager? Anything at all?
>
> Aside from these lines, there are only the following two concerning the
> loopback interface, are these needed?
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> godo <goran@dobosevic.com> writes:
> > Looks like this problem
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg00700.html
> > This is my answer after I fix my 2 laptops
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/02/msg00761.html
>
> Hm, doesn't look like the same thing to me: I am able to connect to the
> network, it's just not happening automatically. Does your
> /etc/network/interfaces mention the network devices in question?

I'm no expert on networks, and if it ain't broke don't fix it; but if you 
wanted to connect automatically using /etc/network/interfaces you 
could/should have the lines:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

HTH
Lisi


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