Ethernet adapter was disable on Ubuntu 17.04

Question

I am using Ubuntu 17.04 but I don't know why my Ethernet interface was disabled.

I tried lshw -C network and it shows this:

WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
  *-network DISABLED        
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 19
       bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
       logical name: enp0s25
       version: 04
       serial: 00:21:cc:cd:28:8f
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.13-3 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:28 memory:f2500000-f251ffff memory:f253b000-f253bfff ioport:6080(size=32)

How I can enable it?

enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 — minhky, Apr 19 '17 at 13:48
Try with sudo ip l s dev enp0s25 up. Make sure that ethernet cable is connected. — fugitive, Apr 19 '17 at 13:55
This question is an almost duplicate from another one too: https://askubuntu.com/questions/905552/wired-networking-ubuntu-17-04 — morhook, Apr 30 '17 at 23:44

score 49 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '17 at 15:32

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Here is how to fix this problem.

Edit file /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf and change it's content from :

[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=*,except:type:wifi,except:type:wwan

To :

[keyfile]
unmanaged-devices=*,except:type:ethernet,except:type:wifi,except:type:wwan

And then run :

sudo service network-manager restart

That's all.

answered Apr 26 '17 at 15:32

user682820

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In case /usr/lib/NetworkManager doesnt exist, you have to install network-manager first – Wax Cage Aug 06 '17 at 22:01
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If this doesn't work for you, try to check NetworkManager.conf for managed=false and change it to true as described in this answer https://askubuntu.com/a/1043244/277898 – jave.web Jun 13 '20 at 00:45
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On newer Ubuntu versions the original line is different. I would suggest not to replace the line but to append ,except:type:ethernet to the end of the line to get ethernet back! – MF.OX Jan 05 '21 at 09:53
Thanks, this helped me to fix the "Unmanaged" device problem. I had to restart the service manager differently, though: sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager. I'm on ubuntu 21.10, but I'm pretty sure that this is the right syntax for current LTS, and probably 1 or 2 versions behind. Cheers – funder7 Jan 30 '22 at 16:00
Thanks, this has fixed it for me... twice. After some updates (presumably) this fix undid itself. – James Bradbury Feb 09 '22 at 11:29
This issue was driving me nuts, and I finally typed the correct search terms to bring me to this answer. Thanks! – grfrazee Jul 28 '22 at 13:19

score 10 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 21 '17 at 19:52

10

My Ethernet was also disabled after I upgraded from LTS 16.04 to 16.10 then to 17.04. I was able to resolve by manually doing the following:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up 
sudo dhclient eth0

edited Apr 21 '17 at 19:52

anonymous2

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answered Apr 21 '17 at 17:27

Juan Gomez

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This helped! But after reboot I again have to type this to get a connection. Is there a proper way to configure this automatically? – Socrates Apr 22 '17 at 17:24
@Socrates The first solution has worked for me to make it automatically https://askubuntu.com/a/909185/170833 . AFAIK it's doing internally a similar thing (starting the interface and calling dhcp client after it) – morhook Apr 30 '17 at 23:53
@morhook This requires installing additional software 'network-manager' which is not installed by default on ubuntu server – rtaft Oct 31 '17 at 13:41
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I'm not sure how to schedule this commands via configuration on ubuntu server without network-manager – morhook Nov 01 '17 at 13:21
On 18.04 server (new install) the NIC was disabled... this allowed me to bring the NIC up and get on the network without network-manager being installed, but the NIC would get disabled again on reboot. Once I was online I installed network-manager and used this solution for a permanent fix: https://askubuntu.com/a/909185/283005 – Jun 18 '18 at 02:55

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 03 '17 at 02:21

4

Delete all in /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf
Change [ifupdown] managed=false to true in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
restart with sudo service network-manager restart

answered Jul 03 '17 at 02:21

David

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kristof · Answer 4 · 2017-04-25T09:02:06.523

When I upgraded to 17.04 this network manager file was blocking my system from automatically managing my devices.

/usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf

Content:

[keyfile]

unmanaged-devices=*,except:type:wifi,except:type:wwan

I commented it all out, rebooted, and everything works fine now. It can also be deleted.

Reference: Network Manager refusing to manage wired interfaces

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 17 '17 at 02:32

Other's replies solve the problem, but you should not edit the system file /usr/lib/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf since your changes could be overwritten during the next upgrade, and you probably won't remember which is the file involved.

Create a new file instead: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-globally-managed-devices.conf which overrides the first one. Make it empty or comment its content with the hash symbol:

[keyfile]
# unmanaged-devices=*,except:type:wifi,except:type:wwan

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