Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 21:44 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
>> My wired enet has a bad connection, so I bought a usb2 enet adapter. It
>> works fine, but I think it points out a problem with nm. It seems nm
>> doesn't notice the new adapter on eth2 if I plug it in after startup,
>> unless I restart nm.
>
> Does your adapter use the ne2k driver or something? Does the driver do
> link detection? NM certainly isn't going to use your adapter unless the
> driver can do carrier detect. Try 'mii-tool eth0' when a cable is
> plugged in, or or 'ethtool eth0' and look for the "Link detected: "
> line. If your cable is in, but neither of those report a link, then the
> driver likely needs fixing.
>
> For example, NM won't work automatically in QEMU because the ne2k_pci
> driver that suports the NE2000 hardware that qemu emulates doesn't
> support carrier detect.
>
sudo /sbin/ethtool eth2
Settings for eth2:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 3
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pg
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
Link detected: yes
Driver is asix
device is d-link EUB-E100
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