Re: nm disabled by pppoeconf

[Daniel Gnoutcheff <daniel gnoutcheff name>]

On 05/06/2010 07:13 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote:
> network manager couldn't create a dsl connection on a modem/router device.

I know this is not your main question, but I'm quite curious: why didn't 
this work? What happened when you tried? If this is a bug in N-M, it 
would be great to get it fixed.

> so i used pppoeconf.
>
> pppoeconf handled everything with just confirming all the way through
> it's interactive configuration dialog.
> ever since the computer dials in to the internet properly.
>
> now i have new hardware and i want to use WLAN on the machine..
>
> network manager doesn't show up on my lucid.

Am I correct to understand that you mean that the network manager icon 
doesn't show up in your panel? What happens when you run nm-applet from 
a terminal?

Also, is the N-M daemon actually running? Try running
"status network-manager". If that says it's not running, try
"sudo start network-manager".

As far as pppoeconf goes, I don't know much about it (or about PPPoE in 
general), but Google gives me the impression that it and N-M should be 
able to coexist. It sounds like /etc/network/interfaces is involved, and 
on Ubuntu (and many Debian-based distros in general), N-M is setup by 
default to ignore any devices that have been configured by 
/etc/network/interfaces. Thus I'm guessing that N-M is not going to 
manage your Ethernet device - which I think is what we want when using 
pppoeconf. However, WLAN devices should be unaffected.

Perhaps you could post your /etc/network/interfaces? That might help 
figure out what's up.

Hope that helps!

Have a good one,
Daniel