NM still not bringing up eth0

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 10:32 +0100, Derek Cramer wrote:
> 2008/5/5 Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com>:
>         On booting, nm is not bringing up my wired connection.  When I
>         login,
>         nm-applet is not starting.  I have to start it manually, then
>         it brings up
>         eth0.
>         
>         nm-applet shows selection 'auto ethernet'.  Last time I
>         manually
>         selected 'wired connection', but it set itself back to
>         'auto' (whatever
>         that means - automatically not work maybe?)
> 
> FWIW, I'm seeing exactly this as well. If I unplug the ethernet cable
> and re-plug it in, NM will activate it, otherwise, it ignores the
> ethernet and defaults to wireless.

I'm seeing exactly the same behavior on my home system after a reboot.It
does NOT happen if I only logoff and then log back on. This system
doesn't have a wireless adapter, so when it happens I simply have no
connectivity at all until selecting  "eth0 Auto".

Hope that helps chase things down!

Cheers,

Chris

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