Am Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hi! > > > > There is already an upstream bug report for this: > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418745 > > > > Upstream doesn't seem to be interested in fixing false network online > > status reports or even deleting default routes in that case. NM > > didn't do the later here yet tough. > > I agree, that this situation is less than ideal (and thanks for the > nice writeup). With 0.7 the situation will be better, as NM can handle > more different use case (static ip etc.), but the underlying problem > still exists. > > A short term fix could be, to assume the network status to be "online" > for unmanaged devices, rather than offline. This way apps wouldn't go > into offline mode. What you will get though eventually, is unsuccessful > network connection attempts (but that wouldn't be a regression with > regard to old ifupdown). > > Ubuntu ships a patch for exactly that, and I could pull it from there
Sounds like a plan! Currently I just disabled Network Manager altogether. I just use it when I use wifi and at home and work I have port replicators for my ThinkPads. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7
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