Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

network profiles problem

Bug #118510 reported by Alexey Maksimov
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

On my laptop I have wifi, wired and modem. I don't use the modem and it's not configured.
I have 2 network profiles in network-admin:
home: eth1 (wifi) - off, eth0 (wired) - 172.16.100.2/16
office: eth1 (wifi) - off, eth0 (wired) - 172.16.100.2/16

Actually, only DNS server is defferent. And I have my wifi turned off with hard switch.

The problem:
If I set up "home" profile and then reboot, ifconfig shows that both interfaces: eth0 AND eth1 are active, however, network-admin shows that only eth0 is active.
If I set up "office" profile and then reboot, ifconfig still shows that both interfaces are active and even more, gkrellm also thinks that I have them both active
(note that that's only for "office" profile case, not "home").

I'm running ubuntu feisty on IBM Z60m laptop.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug is actually about network-admin part of gnome-system-tools and I am changing the package appropriately.

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue that you reported is one that should be reproducible with the live environment of the Desktop CD of the development release - Hardy Heron. It would help us greatly if you could test with it so we can work on getting it fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. You can find out more about the development release at http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexey Maksimov (alexey-maksimov) wrote :

Well, I'm now using 7.10 and there is no 'off' option for interface - only 'roaming' and 'custom configuration'

I've tried 8.04 alpha5.
There is also no 'off' option for network interfaces - just 'roaming mode'.

Ok, same laptop, wifi hard switch is off, ubuntu 8.04 alpha5 livecd.
When I boot I get right configuration - i.e. only eth0 (wired) interface is up, eth1 (wireless) is down.
I can see this with ifconfig command.
Then I go into network-admin and just set up static IP for eth0, nothing more.
After that my eth1 interface is magically up though with no IP address assigned.

I guess I'm just irritated to see that my wireless interface is up, when it's turned off by hard switch,
and I can't bring it down using network-admin.

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Magnus S (magnuss) wrote :

Hi,
this bug report is getting old, so i'm closing it now. If you are still having problems, please reopen.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".
It looks like this bug is network related, so it should be filed against linux or network-admin.

Thanks again!

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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