Re: nm-applet suddenly offers no options

[Peter Flynn <peter silmaril ie>]

Seth Howard wrote:
> There is a quirk in ubuntu (I think it will be "fixed" with feisty)
> that doesn't allow network-manager to see devices that are listed in 
> /etc/network/interfaces.

Cute design idea :-)

> Try commenting out all lines EXCEPT (this is important - you will
> have an unbootable system if these lines aren't there):
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback

Thanks...I've tried all permutations of commenting out lines, doing an
/etc/init.d/network restart and HUPping NM, but nm-applet still
stubbornly refuses to admit that *any* network interface exists.

With judicious uncommenting I can get eth0 to work over CAT5 into my
router, natch. Trying to use ath0/wifi0 shows the DHCP request being
granted a lease, but any attempt at connecting from an application
gets a timeout. Even trying to ping the router (the very one that 
granted the lease) gets a sendmsg: Operation not permitted.

> That has worked for me in the past. But if for some reason it doesn't
> work, you can always uncomment the other lines and try something
> else.

This is rather baffling, especially as it was all working perfectly 
three days ago. Enlightenment was the only intruder. I wonder what piece 
of binary randomness it introduced which slew NM?

///Peter