Re: NetworkManager thinks "usb0" is my default network port.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 20:45 -0700, Xamindar wrote:
> NetworkManager is now showing two "Wired Network" selections; one for my 
> normal ethernet interface and one for my usb network interface, and of 
> course the wireless networks.
> 
> I had this problem on Ubuntu and got so fed up that I went back to 
> Gentoo where NetworkManager didn't have this problem.  But now it is 
> doing it and I'm not sure at this moment if it is because I had my 
> Zaurus plugged in (it is what I use usb0 for) on boot up or if it was 
> caused by an update that I just ran.
> 
> For some reason networkmanager will now show my usb0 device which is not 
> connected to the internet and in my case never will be used to connect 
> to the internet.  I have usb0 set up in Gentoo configs to set a certain 
> IP and Netmask for the interface whenever it comes up.  And it only 
> comes up when I plug in my Zaurus.  When I plug in my zaurus Network 
> Manager anoyingly changed over to the usb0 device and my internet 
> connection stops working.
> 
> Is there a way to remove usb0 from showing in Network Manager or at 
> least set it so that Network Manager never tries to use it as a default 
> route to the internet?

NM on Fedora and Suse at least allow you to set NM_CONTROLLED=no
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXXX where XXXX is a device
name.  I'm not sure if Gentoo allows the same thing in its backend.

Dan