Re: netowork manager doesn't know it has connected

["Anze Slosar" <anze slosar com>]

Does your system actually use DHCP or static IP?  If DHCP, something is
not getting to NetworkManager.  Be sure you have the correct 'dbus-send'
magic at the top of the dhclient script (possibly
in /sbin/dhclient-script).  The fact that NM is attempting to do autoip
here means that DHCP is clearly not succeeding, and that NM is told that
the interface requires static IP configuration.

Ah, great!

This was the pointer I needed! Located dhclient-script in /etc/dhclient3 and tracked the problem down to a rogue whereami exit-hook script that broke the dhclient exit... Now works like a charm! Thanks!

anze