Comment 19 for bug 82927

Just guessing, I presume whoever decided Network Manager was mandatory on Feisty Fawn didn't know it was buggy. I went back on Edgy, which was running fine without Network Manager, installed the Network Manager package, and it had the same bug "No network connection" when there is one. Another of my computers doesn't have a problem with Network Manager, but of course I can't see if it is doing anything either.

I then tried removing the Network Manager package from Edgy and I'm worse off than when I started. I have to issue "sudo dhclient" to get the network connection going when I didn't have to do that before trying Network Manager.

A month ago when "persistent" was still working on Feisty (it's been broken since about 20070210) I had trouble with Network Manager on my laptop wireless, saying there was no connection when there was one. When/if Feisty gets "persistent" working again I'll check to see if Network Manager is still broken on that too.

So for me, Network Manager is a loser. As is, it would seem to me Ubuntu will lose new customers because of it. I've seen 2 experienced users back off a Ubuntu distro when it didn't connect to the internet. I wonder if there are any fixes being considered?

Cheers, Jerry