Can NetworkManager (ie, gnome's, and its tray applet) do that job? Aside from that, I don't know. Mind you that when I ran " ifconfig lo" and *had* those lines commented, I didn't have an empty output. I had something similar with what is bellow (which was taken just now, after uncommenting the lines). I'm not sure if there was something in the place of "UP", though.
lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:1855 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1855 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:574202 (574.2 KB) TX bytes:574202 (574.2 KB) -- nfs-kernel-server doesn't start automatically at startup https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs