Re: Network manager not handling interfaces

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 09:25 -0500, Githin Alapatt wrote:
> I recently upgraded from lenny to squeeze. I used to manage my
> networks using the gnome applet.
> 
> In the new installation, network manager fails to show up any of my
> network device. I made sure that the interfaces are not listed in
> /etc/network/interface (I commented them out). Still the network
> manager fails to show any device (eth0 and wlan0)
> 
> I can use eth0 by configuring it with the /etc/network/interface. That
> works fine.  But, I would like to use the network manager, whenever I
> need to use my laptop on an wi-fi connection.
> 
> What else could be wrong?

Best thing to do here is to grab logs from /var/log/messages
or /var/log/daemon.log and see what NM thinks is going on.  Can you get
those for us?

Dan