Re: network-manager/nm-applet doesn't recognize my wired connection

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 18:34 +0200, Thomas Haller wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 12:06 -0400, Caesar Samsi wrote:
> > Hi Thomas, here they are:
> >
> > > >  nmcli con list:
> >
> > caesar ubuntubase:~$ nmcli con list
> > NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP-REAL   
> >
> > > >  nmcli con status:
> > caesar ubuntubase:~$ nmcli con status
> > NAME                      UUID                                   DEVICES    DEFAULT  VPN   MASTER-PATH   
>
>
> try creating a connection. For example using nm-connection-editor.
>
> For that, click with the right button on nm-applet and select "Edit
> Connections...".

Actually the device is unmanaged.  By default on Ubuntu/Debian, anything
listed in /etc/network/interfaces is unmanaged by NetworkManager.  So if
you have anything there, remove it, restart NM, and now NM should be
allowed to manage the ethernet interface.

Dan