Hi, On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 09:00:51PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:28:18AM +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > > IIRC, NetworkManager only handles connexions marked as auto (or not > > listed at all, should check that somewhere) in /etc/network/interfaces. > > In network-amin (gst tool started from System->Administration->Network), > > you can see that those connexions are in "Itinerant mode", which merely > > means that NetworkManager takes care of them, and that other tools (the > > gst, but also Debian-specific tools like ifup). If you want to configure > > an interface (with static IP or even with DHCP) from network-admin, or > > use it from ifup/ifdown tools, you'll stop NetworkManager from using it. > > Just check that by playing with the check box and the nm-applet list of > > devices. > > Well, it looks like I was barking up the wrong tree, anyway. > gnome-network-admin is not used in 8.04 by default. It looks like I should be > looking at network-manager exclusively. Okay, correction, 8.04 *does* use gnome-network-admin, but NM is patched to detect updates to /etc/network/interfaces while it is running. I'm getting how the pieces fit together now. -Forest -- Forest Bond http://www.alittletooquiet.net http://www.pytagsfs.org
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