[Bug 14621] Clicking the gnome-netstatus-applet causes: SIOCGIFFLAGS error: no such device

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------- Additional Comments From jboy at jboy.id.au  2005-11-17 17:03 UTC -------
Hi,

Some more information on this bug:

I'm seeing the bug on my new laptop: laptop = Asus A6B00K (aka "A6K"); Ubuntu
installation = vanilla 5.10 AMD64.

When I log in, I see the "Network connection: Error" icon in the panel.  Note
that I can successfully ping and ssh-to remote hosts by IP address
(xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx), so networking isn't completely hosed.  What seems to be hosed
is networking by domain name.

Clicking on the "Network connection: Error" icon in the panel brings up an error
dialog.  Right-clicking on the icon, and selecting "Properties", brings up the
"Connection Properties:" dialog, which (as already mentioned by Arthur) has a
blank connection name selected and a connection status of error.

Rather than dropping down the menu to select "lo", if I click on the "Configure"
button, I am prompted to enter my password to run network-admin.  Upon entering
my password, I am presented with a "Network settings" dialog.  I want to create
a new location, so in the "Location" drop-down menu, I select "Create location".
 I enter a location name ("home", say), and the "Location" menu is now set to
that value.  If I then select the "DNS" tab, I am presented with the "DNS
Servers" and "Search Domains" text boxes in their default configurations.  All
very well and good:  The obvious thing to do now is to delete the default DNS
server value and add my own values for the DNS server and search domain (as
supplied by my ISP), then click OK.

Unfortunately, the "Network connection:" icon remains in the error state after
all this, and when I right-click on the icon and select "Properties", I am again
presented with a "Connection Properties:" dialog with a blank connection and an
error status.  Clicking on the "Configure" button again, I am presented with the
"Network settings" dialog, and if I click on "Configure", I observe that the
"Location" drop-down menu is now blank again!

OK, I manually select "home" and the dialog box thinks for a little bit, then I
select the "DNS" tab again, and the text boxes are now in their default settings
once again!  Oh noes!

Of course, I *could* just sudo and edit /etc/resolve.conf by hand, but that
rather defeats the purpose of a beginner-friendly distro...

JB

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