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

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           Summary: Clicking the gnome-netstatus-applet causes: SIOCGIFFLAGS
                    error: no such device
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: amd64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gnome-netstatus-applet
        AssignedTo: debzilla at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: amp at singingwizard.org
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Using a completely fresh install of Breezy (daily Sept. 2). Once I log in to
gnome I click the netstatus applet in the notification area and I get a error
dialog with the message "Please contact you system administrator to resolve the
following problem:\n\nSIOCIFFLAGS error: No such device" (I will attach a screen
shot of the dialog as well).

Right clicking and selecting Properties brings up a connection propreties window
(see screenshot) and there is no interface selected. This is probably the direct
cause of the error message. I drop down the menu and notice that there are only
2 options the blank line and "lo". So I select lo and it now works to click the
icon. I can type in eth0 by hand to make the icon display the status of my
ethernet, but that should at least be an option in the drop-down box and
probably should be the default.

I saw this problem a few weeks ago, too, in an earlier daily CD image. So this
is not new.

The system is a Compaq R3000z AMD64 system with a RTL-8139 ethernet chip and a
broadcom wireless card (not detected by the install).

BTW, I initially though that the netstatus applet would provide network control
(DHCP'ing, and hopefully wireless scaning, etc.) and it doesn't seem to. Maybe
it should have an item in the right-click menu to get this functionality. Just
to prevent people from having to search.

Below is a bunch of system info to help debugging. If you need any more info or
you want me to test something please ask.

ifconfig -a:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:B0:44:9D:A3  
          inet addr:192.168.101.136  Bcast:192.168.101.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fe44:9da3/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:5089945 (4.8 MiB)  TX bytes:206633 (201.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0x8800 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:9481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:851252 (831.3 KiB)  TX bytes:851252 (831.3 KiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  
          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

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