us network and Uuntu 8.10 - is there a better way?

[Pander]

A request has been made to integrate this in Ubuntu here:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/289548

Already NeoTool has been packaged for Ubuntu, perhaps that package or a
new one could be used to autoconfigure and setup USB network with an
OpenMoko device.

kimaidou wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> could you please add the procedure on the wiki so that every ubuntero
> could easily plug/unplug his FR ?
> thanks in advance
> 
> 2008/11/25 Alexander Chemeris <Alexander.Chemeris at sipez.com
> <mailto:Alexander.Chemeris at sipez.com>>
> 
>     On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Cédric Berger
>     <cedric.berger74 at gmail.com <mailto:cedric.berger74 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:46, Joel Newkirk <freerunner at newkirk.us
>     <mailto:freerunner at newkirk.us>> wrote:
>     >> Also be aware that the Network Manager in Ubuntu Intrepid is
>     currently
>     >> buggy.  If you have it running, it is prone to do friendly things
>     like
>     >> automatically add the static IP and route for eth0 to usb0 when
>     it comes
>     >> up. Either it controls all interfaces, or it's not running, right
>     now it
>     >> refuses to leave any interface alone and hopelessly bungles anything
>     >> statically defined in /etc/network/interfaces, ignoring the 'ignore
>     >> interface' flag and claiming all interfaces.
>     >>
>     >> (yeah, same IP and route on two interfaces, and default tries to
>     go out the
>     >> wrong interface so the desktop is effectively off the network, and it
>     >> leaves behind an empty /etc/resolv.conf - sounds like a FreeRunner :)
>     >>
>     >
>     > Thanks, I did wonder what I did wrong on my computer to have default
>     > network route directed to freerunner as soon as I plugged it in ! (so
>     > no more internet access)
>     > I am not used to linux networking, so it took me a while to figure how
>     > to manually delete this rule... (and the network manager UI was not of
>     > a great help... not so user friendly !)
> 
>     Network manager also rewrites /etc/resolv.conf with empty line,
>     effectively
>     preventing DNS from working. So I just uninstaled it and now I feel
>     much safer.
>     It's not needed on a standalone computer anyway.
> 
> 
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>     Regards,
>     Alexander Chemeris.
> 
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