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I am using Xubuntu 12.04 with Network Manager on my HP 5310m Laptop and get a weird problem on wired network.

When googling for answers, I found many people get the problem that wireless disconnects when laptop unplugged. For example, this question: Wireless disconnects when laptop unplugged from power source

However, my problem is that my wired network of my laptop will auto disconnect when unplugged from a power source. Now if I want to use wired network, I must have my laptop plugged. If someone unplugged the power source of my laptop, my network connection will lost at the same time.

I think this may be some kind of "power-save" method but I searched /etc/pm-utils/power.d/ without find anything about wired network.

Can anyone help?

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  • Take a look at this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/98936/wired-connection-not-working-unplugged-help – Mitch Jul 07 '12 at 06:28
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    @Mitch Sorry, but I am not using a PPPoE connection. It's a Ethernet connection. And the problem occurs when I unplug the power source, not when powering up the laptop for some while... – Zhuoyun Wei Jul 07 '12 at 11:03

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Well, I almost forgot that I asked here this question.

I have already figured out why. There is nothing to do with software, drivers, et cetra. This is indeed a hardware issue. The motherboard of my laptop will automatically turn off the wired NIC when unplugged. There is a switch in the CMOS setting named "Power save on LAN". Turning if off solves this issue.

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Wired or wireless works on the same way in NetworkManager daemon.
To avoid using it I had set up my own static eth connection for networking service in 

/etc/network/interfaces<br/>

iface eth0 inet static<br/>
address 192.168.1.2<br/>
netmask 255.255.255.0<br/>
gateway 192.168.1.1<br/>

Then remove eth dhcp from the NetworkManager gui, otherwise it overrides it.

You can also set up dhcp there:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

If your eth is not eth0, you need to change here.

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