Yep, whoever coded that part of Network Manager decided some cards didn't support carrier detect therefore disabled the card. Even though the cards work just fine.
Once booted, with Gutsy Ubuntu and Gutsy Xubuntu, clicking on the network manager icon and clicking the wired network line and waiting......activates the connection. Absolutely no reason that couldn't have been done during boot by the Network Manager code in the first place. Two thorns remain - I boot, there's a prominent notification of updates, I click on update icon which runs for a while then bombs out because of "no network connection". Oops, cancel out of that, click on network icon and wired connection, wait, then try the update again.... Biggest bone on Kubuntu as of 20071010, I haven't tried Kubuntu 7.10 yet, is that there is NO ACTIVE (NOT GREY'D OUT) PLACE TO CLICK ON WIRED CONNECTION. ERGO, NO NETWORK. FOR ME, THAT MAKES KUBUNTU DOA (DEAD ON ARRIVAL). Kubuntu Tribe 5 worked fine. "Rest in peace." And oh, yes, if the connection is enabled with sudo dhclient, Gutsy 7.10 Network Mangler doesn't recognize it (the topic of this bug in the first place) so Kubuntu remains networkless even though there is a working pingable connection.... Jerry -- [feisty fawn and Gutsy] NetworkManager reports incorrect online status https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/82927 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
