Questions tagged [network-manager]
NetworkManager is the default networking suite for Ubuntu. It is a set of co-operative tools developed by GNOME. The NetworkManager service can be controlled using the nmcli tool (Network Manager Command Line Interface) as well as by its GUI.
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Can't connect VPN pptp on 13.10
So I am having the exact issue as was happening in this question here
I have also installed a VPN connection via NetworkManager and getting the exact same stack trace. I've looked at /etc/nsswitch....
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Prefer home WiFi over tethering WiFi
I have 2 WiFi sources:
Home WiFi, unlimited.
Mobile Broadband WiFi, limited. I want to use it only when there is no other choice.
How to set NetworkManager to switch from Mobile WiFi as soon as Home ...
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DSL connection in WICD
How can I configure DSL connection in WICD any Idea and if not use this then what should I use.
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Network-manager not running?
I am able to connect to a WiFi but as I connect my LAN cable for Internet it says that network-manager not running and the I am unable to connect to even WiFi.
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can I use bind9 as a DNS to resolve to an external IP?
Question says it all. I have a digital ocean IP address and I want to know if I can use bind9 to resolve a registered domain on a completely different network/IP? If not, what can I use?
Thanks!
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booting without full network configuration 13.10
Recently I tried to install connman which removed network manager and some other dependencies. Now I cannot connect to any network, either wireless or broadband. I have tried multiple solutions from ...
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Wifi adapter worked from 12.04 DVD but won't connect after installing UB 12.04
I really don't get it, my wifi worked fine when I booted from dvd but after installing ub 12.04 my wifi only detects all APs but I suddenly can't connect to any of 'm and my neighbor upstairs and me ...
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How to get host-name from DHCP server via Network Manager?
I can get hostname and ip address from DHCP server with invoking the script under /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ directory as explained here on client side .
EDITED: I assigned host-name and ip ...
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how to resolve wifi disconnects and can't reconnect until disable and re-enable networking?
I don't know if this is something that already has a solution or not. I am running ubuntu 12.04 LTS and wireless driver rtl8187.
My wireless connection drops after a while (like an hour or so) and ...
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How do I stop the NetworkManager in Ubuntu 13.10 without using the service command?
Usually this works as root
service network-manager stop
But last time it didn't. There was some message like "no such service". Strangely today, after a reboot it works!
Yesterday I also tried:
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Why are there two network indicators with ubuntu-desktop in Kubuntu
I installed Kubuntu 13.10 32 bit on my Yoga 2 Pro and after some days all window decorations were gone and I couldn't repair that, so I decided to install
aptitude install ubuntu-desktop
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How do I stop the NetworkManager in Ubuntu 13.10? [duplicate]
I tried as root
service network-manager stop
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/etc/init.d/network-manager stop
But that doesen't exist.
And:
killall NetworkManager
but it seems to restart immediately.
How do I stop it???...
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Set max-routes from network-manager-openvpn
The openvpn of my company is pushing about 250 routes. I can connect by the command line interface of openvpn by using max-routes 300 in the clients config file. By importing this file into nm, this ...
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Wirless ap-hotspot ubuntu 13.10
I have Ubuntu 13.10 and I created a wireless hot spot using the network setting option and also tried to setup using AP-hotspot.
The problem is the one setup using network setting is not showing in ...
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Wired network does not work in Ubuntu, but works in Windows 7
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I have pasted full output of bash command in Ubuntu into here, including ifconfig, ping, nm-tool, modinfo and dmesg | grep e100.
Hi all,
I can surf internet in Windows 7, just pluging in ...
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How to reinstall network manager without internet access?
Unfortunately, I uninstalled network-manager-gnome using sudo apt-get remove --purge network-manager. I was trying to reinstall it from but without internet connection I cannot do so. What is the ...
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Disconnected from wireless network - Ubuntu 12.04, Sony VF
I bought a Sony VAIO F series (SVF15A1C5E) recently with Windows 8 on it. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and just kept a recovery partition for Windows as I do not need it. Unfortunately I cannot connect to ...
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Resolve network connection problem at startup
I encounter problems during starting up Ubuntu 12.04 laptop. There is no internet connection (wired network connection is established though) and there is no error message from network manager or ...
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Ubuntu (wubi version) cannot connect to the internet network
I am new in the world of ubuntu. Recently I installed the wubi version of ubuntu in my desktop and I have the following problem: It cannot be connected to the wired network. When I use the PC in ...
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Network Manager dispatcher.d script error
I wrote a script in "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d" to open the Firefox preferences dialog whenever I connect to a particular network (college wifi), because I have to enable proxy.
The script is ...
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Upgraded to 13.10 and my airtel connection manager does not detect Huawei E398 4g LTE modem
I was using the Airtel 4G LTE modem (Huawei E398) with the Airtel connection manager successfully in Ubuntu 12.10 (in one partition, have Ubuntu 13.04 in another partition). Upgraded to Ubuntu 13.10 2 ...
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How to use custom DNS server for selected domains only?
There are quite few nice DNS service providers that do region unblocking and advertisement blocking. But I'm not too fond of sharing all my DNS queries with them.
How I can use their DNS services ...
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Network manager auto-connect to wifi-network fails
Network manager (nm) does not auto-connect to a configured wifi-network (e.g. "net-a") after upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10. Before the upgrade nm auto-connected to the pre-configured wireless network (...
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What are the command-line alternatives to Network Manager (nm-cli), Wicd (wicd-curses), wpa_supplicant for managing wireless? [closed]
OK, I know that I am crossing out the most popular choices out there, but there is a reason for that. I am working on a BeagleBone Black running an ultra light version of Ubuntu 13.04 and I currently ...
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Network Manager breaks manual routes
I have Ubuntu 13.10, Saucy Salamander x64 running as a guest in VirtualBox (with Windows 7 as a host).
I wrote this /etc/network/interfaces because I need to add a large number of permanent, manual ...
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NetworkManager doesn't see my wireless card
System details: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, kernel is 3.5.0-45-generic, laptop is Dell Sputnik 3 XPS 13, wireless card is Intel Wireless 7260(rev 6b)
I was having trouble connecting to my campus CS wireless ...
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Socket communiction in absence of wired network connection
I am facing a strange issue on my Ubuntu (12.04.3 64 bit). I have a couple of C programs communicating (let's call them sender and receiver programs) through sockets. These work as expected when the ...
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connect: Network is unreachable? - ping
When I attempt to ping google's dns or any outside the network I get
connect: Network is unreachable?
I can't update either which I put down to this
I am new to networking... And Ubuntu. But these ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 NetworkManager "Dump inconsistency detected" System Freeze
I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 on Asus N550JV laptop. My system gets frozen pretty randomly during the day. Sometimes it's possible to switch to terminal and then back to resolve it, other times it entirely ...
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Can't resolve windows domains in local network
I've installed ubuntu on my computer at work because I think it is a perfect system for work which I do but I got some issues. I can't resolve domains from windows DNS server. Basically, we have two ...
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How to purge BAM huawei mobile partner?
It annoying me every startup, now I use wvdial. I can't find it on synaptic package manager.
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network-manager device not managed with virt-manager
I am using Ubuntu 12.04.4 64 bit .
After installing virt-manager, I found my scenario would be to user bridge networking, so I managed to let my machines works with bridge interface br0.
From that ...
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How to debug VPN Connection Issues (13.10)
I'm trying to connect to a work VPN, but every time I attempt to connect it fails. The VPN has been configured in the Network Manager UI and the connection is being started from there too. I have ...
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Wireless card tries to connect, but connection fails. Used to work
I used to be able to use my Ubuntu desktop to connect to my Wireless AP. Then I moved across country and when I finally received my box, the system would no longer connect to the AP. I have other ...
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enable MSCHAP and MPPE for VPN connection
I have setup a VPN configuration file, the connection is responding but in order to actually connect to it I need to enable MSCHAP, MSCHAPv2 and MPPE, just like the picture here:
The problem ...
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How To debug and fix a PPTP VPN client connection
I have just installed Ubuntu 13.10 and I'm trying to set up a VPN client. I have configured it with the same settings I use on a Mac and I am able to connect from that without any problem.
When I ...
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Connected to wifi, but no internet on Ubuntu 12.04
My new dell xps 13 haswell developer edition ( with ubuntu 12.04) began to have problems with the wifi.
Everything worked just fine till yesyerday when I connected my computer to wifi at work (it ...
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Is Network Manager widget supposed to be installed by default in KDE? Even so I don't have it installed and errors prevent from installation
I've looked on the internet but I haven't seen anything that really IMO helps me to try to solve this problem.
Actually the problem that led me to want to install "Network-Manager-KDE" is the fact ...
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After deactivating NetworkManager, how do I add the DNS server address to resolv.conf?
I deactivated NetworkManager with sudo apt-get remove network-manager because I want to have all network configuration in /etc/network/interfaces.
After system restart, I see that cat /etc/resolv....
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Why is the wifi network visible to everybody but me?
Recently my flatmate changed the maximum number of devices that can connect to our Wifi and since then I cannot see our Wifi network.
I am the only one in my household using Ubuntu. I logged into our ...
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Where is OpenVPN's client configuration from Network-manager's OpenVPN plugin?
I know how to write and when to put OpenVPN's config files for clients but I would like to be able to see the config files generated by network-manager-openvpn plugin. (For instance to change logging ...
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Wireless Network completely disabled
I have read many posts and the answers provided don't seem to help me.
I have ran many commands and pasted them below so hopefully will cover the basic questions about my system and what i am ...
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how do I enable firewall zones for NetworkManager
I am trying to use the default network manager for ubuntu 13.10 to connect to networks. Despite any config changes for example, enabling UFW, does not allow for the changing of this profile scheme. It ...
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How to find name of currently-active network interface?
I need to get the name of the network interface (e.g. eth0, wlan0) that is the currently-active one, the one sending and receiving traffic at the moment. When it's connected to WiFi, it would be wlan0 ...
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OpenVPN and the NetworkManager plugin - Advanced Settings Questions
I just set up OpenVPN and the network manager plugin. I purchased VPN service from PrivateInternetAccess.com. It works fine but only when the Cipher and HMAC Authentication under the advanced ...
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Kde network notification on start-up at center
I have installed Kubuntu 13.10 and after i login it show me a kde network notification on top-center screen. How can i disable or adjust this inconvenience. Here is a screenshot:
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Can both NICs be in the same subnet?
I have a requirement for which I have to put both the interfaces(eth0 and wlan0) of Ubuntu 12.04 PC in the same subnet. As far as I understand, this should not create a problem but I wanted to ...
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Is network manager called from an /etc/init.d script?
I want to run a script to set the hostname on a heavy customized liveUSB version of ubuntu 10.04 (customized means I'm not ready to update to latest version)
I need the script to run before the ...
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Network Connections - Wired tab - edit button greyed out
There are multiple posts/questions about this but none actually have an answer that I could find.
Just installed Ubuntu server 12.04. Added myself to the sudoers file, changed the networkmanager.conf ...
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My Wifi does not work for SSH login or saving some forms
The system works perfectly fine with wired connection. It has problems accessing wifi at my office. However my wifi at my home seems to work fine.
I have installed wicd and tried many alternatives ...