Comment 8 for bug 291564

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Stephan Trebels (ncubede) wrote : Re: [intrepid] network manager must be restarted after every boot

> anyway, the other problem that your mapped interfaces do not autoconnect can probably quite easily
> be solved by propagating the autoconnect state of the "main"-connection to the mapped connections
> in the ifupdown legacy plugin.

Not sure that would be a solution, right now all I want is NetworkManager to expose its state to nm-applet.

> meaning: if you have multiple wifi configurations mapped (which probably should be a common use
> case of mapping), NM will just autoconnect to whatever of the configured SSIDs it has in range ;).

In my case I am ok with the wireless connectivity (or better I was until one of the later intrepid alphas). I use mappings for the wired connections, as the script determines whether I am physically related in our Portland office, my home office, out Amsterdam office, or whatever.