On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Dan Williams <d...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 12:47 -0700, Russ Dill wrote: >> 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. > > And there's the problem. It won't always be usb0. If you have two, it > could be usb1. Thus there isn't any unique identifier.
In my situation, I don't care. Currently, if I want this to work, I have to change the hardware address in the network manager settings every single time I reboot the board. The limitation of only being able to plug in one at a time seems rather minor to me. > Dan > >> > 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
