On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 17:06 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 03:26 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > For debugging purposes, I have set up a firewire connection between my > > desktop and laptop. But it so happens, that it is nice to use it as a > > network link, and it has about 12 Mbytes/s rates, more that enough for > > me. (ethernet port on desktop is used for main network connection, and > > laptop connected wirelessly) > > > > It seems that NM ignores the firewire eth1394. and newer firewire-net. > > > > > > Is that true? > > Probably. There's nothing that says we couldn't add support for it, but > I think there's just some missing bits for recognizing the bus type or > something. > > Got a pointer guide on how to set it up in Linux that I could take a > look at? I might at least be able to narrow down where NM is ignoring > the device.
I have used this: http://howto.krisbuytaert.be/FireWireClustering/x57.html First I load eth1394 on both systems (it is blacklisted by default) then, just ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1/24 up Notes: 1 - eth1394 doesn't report the link status, in fact it doesn't support any ethernet extensions (ethtool). 2 - eth1394 doesn't recover from link failure (eg if you unplug the cable), thus I use ifconfig down , then up to recover, on one of the sides, second one recovers automaticly. 3 - nether this driver support suspend/resume. I have to reload ohci1394, to recover. Newer, very new driver firewire-net, doesn't have problem #2, maybe #3, but still doesn't report link status (it is unstable - low speeds, and oopses now) Best regards, Maxim Levitsky _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
