Hmm. The second part (network card always selected as default) might be a duplicate of bug 843780. The non-detect part is somewhat trickier. Is there perhaps any information in syslog (please attach output of "grep pulseaudio /var/log/syslog" ) that can indicate what's going wrong?
** Changed in: pulseaudio (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/844653 Title: pulseaudio does not detect networked sound card To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/844653/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs