Sorry for just getting around to this again. I've submitted a bug report on bugzilla.gnome.org. I've also confirmed that biosdevname should not rename wireless NICs and am making sure that there are sufficient checks in biosdevname for that.
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #674765 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674765 ** Also affects: network-manager via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674765 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/962587 Title: When using ifnet plugin and biosdevname is enabled, NetworkManager may treat wired interfaces as wireless interfaces Status in NetworkManager: Unknown Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: From the source for network-manager-0.9.3.995+git201203152001.04b2a74, I see that NM would treat any NIC names resulting from having biosdevname enabled (of the form em* and p*p*) as wireless interfaces. This is apparent from src/settings/plugins/ifnet/net_parser.c and src/settings/plugins/ifnet/connection_parser.c. init_block_by_line in src/settings/plugins/ifnet/net_parser.c: if ((conn = get_connection_config (pos)) == NULL) { if (g_ascii_strncasecmp (pos, "eth", 3) == 0 && strlen (pos) == 4) /* wired connection */ conn = add_new_connection_config ("wired", pos); else if (g_ascii_strncasecmp (pos, "ppp", 3) == 0 && strlen (pos) == 4) /* pppoe connection */ conn = add_new_connection_config ("ppp", pos); else if (ignore_connection_name (pos)) { /* ignored connection */ conn = add_new_connection_config ("ignore", pos); } else /* wireless connection */ conn = add_new_connection_config ("wireless", pos); } get_wired_name in src/settings/plugins/ifnet/connection_parser.c: gchar *conn_name = g_strdup_printf ("eth%d", i); It is not clear to me if any wireless interfaces would be named of the forms em* or p*p*, so I do not know if it would be sufficient to check the name of an interface to determine what type it is. However, it at least would usually be incorrect to label an interface called, say, em1 as a wireless interface. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/962587/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
