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Bug 607593 - Make it clear you've changed the /etc/network/interfaces
Make it clear you've changed the /etc/network/interfaces
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: Distro-specific
0.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-01-20 18:53 UTC by Philip Muskovac
Modified: 2020-11-12 14:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Philip Muskovac 2010-01-20 18:53:34 UTC 
In Intrepid I wanted to browse for wireless networks but I wasn't able to find it anywhere.
Through the System->Preferences->Network Configuration I was able to add a wireless network by SSID, but that didn't actually work, nor seemed to be very user friendly anyway. All I could do, was see was the signal strength of my ath0 device. That's it.

Googling for this issue was pretty hard, and for all I knew, the network applet was seriously damaged after my upgrade from Hardy.

Finally it turned out: I had some entries in my /etc/network/interfaces file and needed to clear that file. After that, everything worked beautifully (more power to you).

While this may all be very logical (I can imagine network-manager not tempering with custom interfaces, that's probably a good thing), it would have been very helpful if there was a clue about this in the user interface. Maybe a lightbulb saying:

"A custom configuration file is disabling network-manager, please clear /etc/network/interfaces if you want all features enabled"

or something like that - would be a simple way of making Ubuntu more user friendly, and saving some frustration. In my humble opinion, that is. Please consider.

This was originally filed as https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-applet/+bug/306878
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-01-20 22:42:43 UTC 
This isn't completely possible for at least the reason that interfaces in /e/n/i are blacklisted by default (due to a decision made a long time ago) and reversing that decision isn't going to be easy in an upgrade path

What could be done is a better mechanism of displaying /why/ a certain interface is listed as "unmanaged".
Comment 2 Pavel Simerda 2014-11-18 21:12:36 UTC 
This bug looks ancient...
Comment 3 André Klapper 2020-11-12 14:31:53 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being shut down in favor of a GitLab instance. 
We are closing all old bug reports and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla which have not seen updates for a long time.

If you still use NetworkManager and if you still see this bug / want this feature in a recent and supported version of NetworkManager, then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/

Thank you for creating this report and we are sorry it could not be implemented (workforce and time is unfortunately limited).