Brian, can you confirm that you have same problem in /etc/network/interfaces as sk0rp10?
In that case, this is bug in knetworkconf and should be addressed there.
sk0rp10: can you tell us exact steps that you need to to do in knetworkconf to reproduce missing "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces? Are you running edgy or feisty?
Brian, can you confirm that you have same problem in /etc/network/ interfaces as sk0rp10?
In that case, this is bug in knetworkconf and should be addressed there.
sk0rp10: can you tell us exact steps that you need to to do in knetworkconf to reproduce missing "auto" in /etc/network/ interfaces? Are you running edgy or feisty?