[network-admin] network preferences gone after dapper -> edgy upgrade

Thanks for your bug. Could you attach your /etc/network/interfaces (with private datas like your wep key replaced) and run ifconfig and copy that to the bug too?

Hmm, I reconfigured it now so I cannot recover what it contained after the upgrade :s

But afaik the problem is not /etc/network/interfaces but the different network locations that can be saved in the network settings window. I do not know where they are stored.

the locations are stored to .gnome2/network-admin-locations. Did you have some locations configured before upgrade?

Yes, I had them configured before the upgrade. The given directory exists on edgy but not on my dapper backup.

on dapper the profiles were probably under /var/cache/system-tools-backends/data/network/profiles.xml

rather /var/cache/setup-tools-backends/data/network/profiles.xml according to upstream

I found backups under /var/cache/setup-tool-backends/backup/network

I guess it will be impossible to fix migration of these data on upgrade before edgy is released.

Isn't it odd that the network data is now in a user directory while I believe it is system wide configuration?

Before fixing the migration we should make sure it's bugged. The location issue would be a good question for upstream, it can make sense to have locations stored by user

I found the file /etc/gnome-system-tools/network/profiles.xml which contains the network profiles from dapper. This is probably the file we want to migrate from.

FYI, when I tried a system upgrade from 6.06 LTS to 6.10, the Wireless card in a desktop box, which is recognised as such in dapper's Network Manager, changed to an 'ethernet' card in edgy's Network Manager, so connectivity was lost. I was unable to set ESSID or WAP key.

I reinstalled 6.06 LTS, and re-established connectivity.

On Edgy's official release, I downloaded the desktop iso and tried again. Running from the CD, in the Network Manager window, there are two NICs shown. Both icons are 'wired' devices, one is called wlan0, and the other eth0. So I'm still unable to configure the wireless interface.

I wondered if it was maybe a HAL issue?

I experience the same as Eric on a clean Herd-1 install. (prism2_usb card, I have installed linux-wlan-ng from the CD). The GUI presents wlan0 as a wired device, so I had to manually edit /etc/network/interfaces to get online.

profiles are not migrated by the new upstream version

Closing since migration issues from three years ago will never be tackled now, sorry. And the issues described by comments 10 and 11 are in NetworkManager, nothing to do with the gnome-system-tools (I guess they're fixed now anyway).