Bug 405785

Summary: KNetworkManager connections don't autoconnect
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 Reporter: Chris Brown <chris.brown>
Component: KDE3Assignee: Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: funtasyspace, wstephenson
Version: Final   
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Hardware: 64bit   
OS: openSUSE 11.0   
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Description Chris Brown 2008-07-02 15:49:28 UTC 
I'm using KDE 3.5.9, OpenSUSE 11.0, 64-bit.

I've gone through the "create new connection" wizard and setup my default wired LAN connection as "eth0".  I checked the "autoconnect" box, but when I logout of KDE or reboot my machine, I get the globe icon in the system tray (I think indicating that my network isn't connected) when I login.  However, my network is connected just fine, because I can surf the internet, use IM, etc just fine.  So, it seems that either "autoconnect" doesn't work, or knetworkmanager isn't detecting that my LAN cable is plugged in.

As a workaround I can manually select the "eth0" connection to make it active, no matter if I have the autoconnect box checked or not.

This problem doesn't exist in the gnome version, it automatically selects "eth0" if it's plugged in.
Comment 1 Helmut Schaa 2008-07-04 13:40:59 UTC 
NetworkManager has a system wide wired connection using DHCP defined which is not visible in KNeworkManager and NetworkManager prefers that one. Therefore your connection does not get started automatically. The connection is not shown in KNM due to bug #397332.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 397332 ***