Re: disable wired interface

[Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 01:50:09PM +0800, Forrest Y. Yu wrote:
> In Debian, it is said that only devices that are *not* listed in /etc/network/
> interfaces or which have been configured "auto" and "dhcp" (with no other
> options) are managed by NM.
> 
> So all you have to do is just modify /etc/network/interfaces.
> 

In ubuntu we don't manage _any_ interface configured in
/etc/network/interfaces. In debian you still need to add a bogus
option to prevent NM from from taking over your auto dhcp interfaces,
e.g.:

auto eth0
iface eth1 inet dhcp
      nm-please-dont-touch this


 - Alexander