Re: netmanager problems with ubuntu 8.04

[Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com>]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 06:59:33PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 18:28 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> > Darren Albers wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 07:23:30AM -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> > >>> Check out the howto at the link I posted, you need to install
> > >>> libdbus-glib-1-dev and libdbus-glib-2-dev
> > >> The proper depends of nm 0.7 for hardy should already be in the PPA of
> > >> the ubuntu network-manager team:
> > >>
> > >>  https://edge.launchpad.net/~network-manager/+archive
> > >>
> > >> Remember to get the wpasupplicant from there as well.
> > >>
> > >>  - Alexander
> > >>
> > >>
> > > 
> > > I also should have clarified that you didn't need all the development
> > > packages if you don't plan on building VPN plugins.
> > > 
> > > I didn't realize that you had already packaged wpa_supplicant so I
> > > will update my notes to use that package instead.   I know that you
> > > are busy, but do you have plans to start building snapshots of NM 0.7?
> > 
> > Having tried putting all the pieces together from what people said here, all I 
> > can say is "ouch".  While it is most definitely "no blame", please don't inflict 
> > these .deb on any other poor sod that happens to come along.  Why?
> > 
> > it's trivially easy, in fact almost guaranteed to end up in the condition where 
> > you have no network connectivity whatsoever. if you aren't comfortable with 
> > editing /etc/network/interfaces, it will be most unpleasant.
> > 
> > DHCP requests are sent, received, and ignored.  This is true for both WiFi and 
> > ethernet.
> 
> Looks like there might be Debian-style D-Bus permission issues with the
> nm-dhcp.action callout's dbus config files disallowing it from sending
> NetworkManager the returned DHCP configuration.
> 
> What's the contents of your /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-dhcp-client.conf
> file?
> 

what you need here appears to be this commit:

  http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~asac/network-manager/main.eni/revision/2764

 - Alexander