Thursday, June 9, 2011

Network Manager Error : Device not managed (ubuntu)


I am facing the problem with Network Manager shows  error, with Wired and Wireless connection. When I click on  tetwork connection, It show "device not managed".

Problem Solve :

> First run command on terminal to see the connection status  sudo  lshw -C Network 
 This show ouput like :

sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for jagdeep: 
  *-network DISABLED               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Wireless-N 1000
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 8c:a9:82:5e:e4:e2
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=128.50.3.1 build 13488 ip=192.168.1.34 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn



       resources: irq:41 memory:f0500000-f0501fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Atheros Communications
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c1
       serial: 14:fe:b5:9a:33:ba
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:44 memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
> If it Show connection is DISABLED than you need to edit following file /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf or /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf

Code :
[main]
plugins=ifupdown, keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

> Changing managed=false to managed=true if  You want NM to manage
Now back in the terminal type sudo killall nm-system-settings or  sudo killall NetworkManger.

It works.

Some Basic Network Commands

 $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
 $ping google.com
 $plog
 $ifconfig
 $
sudo pppoeconf (For setting Dail up Connection with username and password)
 $
lsusb
 $lspci
 $lsmod

$iwlist
 $sudo iwlist eth0 scan
 $sudo lshw -C network
 $rfkill list all
 $rfkill unblock all
 $sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart





1 comment:

  1. i have got the same problem and your solution
    "sudo killall NetworkManger" is working for me

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