Network Manager Applet shows "No Network Connection" when all devices in unmanaged mode (managed=true)

Bug #279737 reported by phisher1
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

When hovered over the Network Manager Applet, it shows "No Network Connection" on normal wired ethernet connection.
Also, the Network Manager Applet shows a warning icon instead of normal.

I have a static IP assigned.
All applications appear to have full normal working network access. The

/etc/issue:
Ubuntu intrepid (development branch) \n \l

uname -a
Linux danc 2.6.27-5-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 3 00:38:23 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.100.3.60
netmask 255.255.0.0
gateway 10.100.1.111
auto eth0

/etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

Also see:
http://img55.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nonetworkconnectionha0.png

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

yes, we should fix this.

The idea is to give ONLINE state when any unmanaged device has a IP address assigned.

Most likely we can reuse parts of the patch currently in the "network manager always offline bug".

Changed in network-manager-applet:
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-8.10
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

this is a dupe of bug 191889

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

the state exposed to applications is now ok. the applet might wanna show a question mark to indicate that it isnt sure.

Thomas Hood (jdthood)
Changed in network-manager-applet (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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