Sunday 6 October 2013

Wired Network “unmanaged” in Network Manager

Issue:

  • WLAN works fine with NetworkManager
  • Wired Device (ethX) is marked as “unmanaged” and doesn’t work even if it gets DHCP-lease/IP-address
  • /etc/network/interfaces looks correct

Solution:

  • Open root terminal and type
      leafpad /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and then edit
          ...
          [ifupdown]
          managed=true
          ...
  • Save the file. Inorder, to make the changes to come to an effect, type
      /etc/init.d/network-manager force-reload