I'm seeing this problem as well. I have a single Ethernet interface that
is configured with a static IP address, and network-manager reports that
I have no network interfaces. I'm running Feisty (newly upgraded from
Egdy, which was in turn newly upgraded from Dapper).

Brian Murray said:
"NetworkManager will not manage any interfaces that are configured in 
'/etc/network/interfaces' as yours is. If you leave only the 'auto' and 'iface' 
line you should be able to use knetworkmanager to statically configure your 
interface."

This confuses me. I assume "configured...as yours is" means that it has
a static IP set up in /etc/network/interfaces. That statement seems to
imply that the user has configured the file in a nonstandard way. Mine
is that way, but I didn't create that file. To make sure, I actually
moved /etc/network/interfaces and rebooted. I then used the
System->Administration->Network menu item to set up the interface again.
Guess what it did? It recreated /etc/network/interfaces with a static IP
address, and now network-manager once again can't find the interface. By
the way, I'm running Gnome, not KDE, so I don't have knetworkmanager.

It's pretty clear I'm using the Ubuntu-intended applet for configuring
the interface, but according to Brian Murray's info, that applet
configures the interface in such a way that makes network-manager
unhappy.

It doesn't really bother me too much that network-manager can't find the
interface. Best I can tell, my setup doesn't even need network-manager
(everything is static in my setup). However, a less savvy user is going
to be disturbed by an icon on the desktop that says "No network
connection".

This bug is marked "info needed". Is there something more that I can
provide?

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