Comment 457 for bug 191889

I have three boxes all running Lucid and all fully updated as of 5 Sept 2010. All three have unmanaged interfaces via /etc/network/interfaces entries. On this box Firefox works normally. On the other two it always comes up in offline mode, and Workaround 1 listed in comment 1 of this report has no effect on it. I've not tried Workaround 2 on them yet.

This box does have one totally unused network adapter that's listed in the interfaces file together with the two NICs that really are used, which may be the difference. However the syslog shows sporadic entries that NetworkManager has found an unmanaged interface and forced "connected" state...