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[Dan Kegel <dank@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The installer (I used the alternate installer) wanted a network connection for use "during the install".
My cheap ethernet cable had failed, so lazily I used wireless.  Install went fine, but:

- on every bootup, the system waited for two minutes for a network connection, even though I had by then plugged in a reliable ethernet connection
- in network manager, the wireless showed up as unmanaged and could not be configured

I see somebody else reported the same thing (see bug 280417 comment #16
by Skaggs) some time ago, so this is not a regression.

Commenting out the wireless adaptor in /etc/network/interfaces and
rebooting solved the problem.

So, there are two or three problems here:
1) the installer should warn you that the network adaptor you choose during the install is placed into /etc/network/interfaces and may need to be removed from there for proper system operation
2) the system doesn't actually manage to reestablish a network connection on that wireless adaptor when it's started that way, though it does fine later once you remove it from that file and manage it with network manager
3) network manager might want to provide some mouseover help explaining how to switch a device from unmanaged to managed.

I'm filing it under network manager since that's where I first ran into
it, and that's where I first saw the workaround documented.

** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862614

Title:
  Using wireless network during install causes hilarity and confusion
  later

Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The installer (I used the alternate installer) wanted a network connection for use "during the install".
  My cheap ethernet cable had failed, so lazily I used wireless.  Install went fine, but:

  - on every bootup, the system waited for two minutes for a network connection, even though I had by then plugged in a reliable ethernet connection
  - in network manager, the wireless showed up as unmanaged and could not be configured

  I see somebody else reported the same thing (see bug 280417 comment
  #16 by Skaggs) some time ago, so this is not a regression.

  Commenting out the wireless adaptor in /etc/network/interfaces and
  rebooting solved the problem.

  So, there are two or three problems here:
  1) the installer should warn you that the network adaptor you choose during the install is placed into /etc/network/interfaces and may need to be removed from there for proper system operation
  2) the system doesn't actually manage to reestablish a network connection on that wireless adaptor when it's started that way, though it does fine later once you remove it from that file and manage it with network manager
  3) network manager might want to provide some mouseover help explaining how to switch a device from unmanaged to managed.

  I'm filing it under network manager since that's where I first ran
  into it, and that's where I first saw the workaround documented.

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