On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 01:25 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: >> I have an embedded device known as a beagle board that draws power >> from my USB port (shows up as usb0). When it boots, it presents itself >> as a USB ethernet device. I want to share my connection with the >> device from network manager. >> >> Two problems: The first is that network manager sees an unmanaged >> device and tries to obtain an IP address, the second, I can't seem to >> setup an automatic share my connection connection since every time the >> board boots, it has a different hardware address. Any tips? > > What is the USB serial number of the device? The core problem here is > that if there's no unique identifier for the device, there's no way to > lock a specific connection to that device, and thus any generic Wired > connection will be used instead. > > Run "lsusb -v" and look for the iSerial field; is that field something > other than 0? Do other beagle boards present other serial numbers?
The serial number is zero. The unique identifier is that its usb0. > Do you want to keep the wired device unmanaged and ignored by > NetworkManager? You said "sees an unmanaged device and tries to obtain > an IP address", but NM should be ignoring unmanaged devices. However, > that mechanism depends on HAL UDIs and thus the random MAC address may > well be confusing it. I may have got my managed/unmanaged terminology confused. Right now, NetworkManager handles all devices not listed int /etc/network/interfaces. I have two wired devices, one is my permanent eth0. eth0 I want nm to manage. The other is the beagle board. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list