us network and Uuntu 8.10 - is there a better way?
Pander
pander at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Nov 25 15:00:55 CET 2008
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.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Alexander Chemeris.
>
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