Re: Connecting a cable

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 9/21/06, David Abrahams <dave boost-consulting com> wrote:
> David Abrahams <dave boost-consulting com> writes:
>
> > Today I booted my machine with no ethernet cable connected and the
> > following in /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> >   iface eth0 inet static
> >   address 192.168.188.19
> >   netmask 255.255.255.0
> >   gateway 192.168.188.1
> >
> > I connected wirelessly.
> >
> > Later I connected a cable.  No reconnection to the wired connection
> > from NM, and no wired connection in the applet menu.  I looked at
> > /etc/network/interfaces and see the above, which explained it.
> >
> > So next, I commented out the eth0 stuff in /etc/network/interfaces.
> > Disabled networking and enabled it in NM applet.  Still no wired
> > connection available.
> >
> > Next I stopped and restarted NetworkManager and
> > NetworkManagerDispatcher.  Still no wired connection available.  I've
> > seen this before.  How do I make the previously-unused wired
> > connection visible to NM?

In Debian and Ubuntu NetworkManager will not manage any devices that
have anything outside of DHCP in /etc/network/interfaces.  So to allow
NM to manage that you need to remove the static information in
interfaces