On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Dan Williams wrote: > >> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 22:42 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> Rogue wrote: > >>>> Hi All, > >>>> > >>>> I am seeing a very strange behavior on my Dell D810 laptop. Everytime I > >>>> start up the system, NM chooses to connect to a non-existent wired > >>>> network. I see the following in the log files: > >>>> > >>> FWIW I experience the same bug. > >>> I have my ethernet nic on eth0 (8139cp) and the wireless nic on wlan0 > >>> (ipw2100). > >>> On startup NM always tries to establish a connection via eth0 although > >>> no cable is plugged in (and it receives a LL IP address via > >>> avahi-autoipd, so the actual connection via wlan0 is not established > >>> because NM thinks it has a connection). > >>> > >>> The problem seems to be, that NM does not correctly init the eth0 device > >>> and so mistakenly thinks it has a link. > >>> > >>> cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0/net/eth0/carrier > >>> yields: Invalid argument directly after loading the module. > >> Hmm, are you using 0.6.4? 0.6.5 relies on netlink exclusively for > >> asynchronous carrier detection and only > >> checks /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier after a successful activation. Do > >> you have a /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier? > > > >> Does what's in SVN head for NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_0_RELEASE work for you? > > > > > > I applied r2578 against 0.6.5 and now the problems seems to be gone. > > Unfortunately I started celebrating too soon. The problem is still there. > > I added a "cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier" in the init script, right before > the > daemon is started. On startup I get a "invalid argument", then NM is started,
Yeah, 'carrier' may not be there if the device is down. > believes the link is up, activates eth0, eth0 gets and LL ip. > After I login, "cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier" yields 0, and nm-tool shows > no > link. > > The version is 0.6.5 with r2578 applied. I've gotten at least one report with traces showing that the fix I committed has made the problem better, but not completely fixed it. dan > Michael > > - -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGciJnh7PER70FhVQRAhdoAJ4kEOHJTcvxAAEfmYaCyY9+WERCoQCgvBxD > HU9yE9VHyJ/lg20hGUwxhoI= > =VCuW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
