Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04 “Wired Network – device not managed”

By: enos76

enos76 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:50:48 +0000

Will they ever make the interfaces file and the nm-applet work in harmony? This is ridiculous.

By: John

John — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:19:17 +0000

Thank you so much for this workaround! I’d been unable to connect to anything but my wireless network for the past year or so. This speeds things up tremendously.

By: Will

Will — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:39:59 +0000

Thank you. It works!
I have been bothered by the question for a long time. After reading your article, I was eagle to try it. It really works on my Ubuntu 9.10. Thanks again!

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:03:53 +0000

Had the same problem but solved it by changing [ifupdown] managed=false to true in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

By: Maja

Maja — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:25:34 +0000

Thank you! This solution worked for me to (8.04LTS –> 9.04)! Found this post on google, I love finding troubleshooters in old blog posts..

By: Karmic Koala | Chris Hanretty

Karmic Koala | Chris Hanretty — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:31:35 +0000

[...] worked perfectly, my ethernet didn’t autoconnect. I fixed it by following the steps at Craig Mayhew’s blog, but that shouldn’t be necessary: this was a fresh install after [...]

By: Samurai

Samurai — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:02:37 +0000

It worked for me. But had to restart my pc for the settings to take effect. Restarting the network service didn’t do the job. Thanks buddy..

By: kjo

kjo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:11:38 +0000

This worked for me. I wonder if I go back now and uncomment if it will still work.

Note to self:::don’t try wicd because of Network Manager problems and then try to switch back when wicd sucks.

By: Codemaster Snake

Codemaster Snake — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:11:14 +0000

Hey!

Thanks for sharing the info… I had this problem and solved it…

cheers!

By: Craig Mayhew

Craig Mayhew — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:30:35 +0000

Hi Snake, Bondo,

Try changing [ifupdown] managed=false to true in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf