On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 11:02 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Hi folks, I have a super weird situation on my Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E: > > I have Fedora 8 which ships network manager 0.7.0-0.5.svn3030 and > until yesterday everything has been working perfectly well, nm-applet > connected to both wired and wireless networks without a problem. And > the strange thing is that I didn't do anything, no new installs, no > upgrades, absolutely nothing (that I know of).
What's the output of 'nm-tool' when that command is run in a terminal, when you're experiencing the problem? Dan > But suddenly since yesterday nm-applet wouldn't connect to the wired > network. The icon shows the 2 monitors with the red dot in the lower > right corner with the white cross on it, showing there is no network > connection. When I click the icon the wired network label and radio > button is enabled on the pop-up menu, I can click it, but nothing > happens. > > Strangely though if I do a 'dhclient eth0' the wired network comes up > and the connection is perfectly okay. However the nm-applet icon is > still in the 'no connection' mode. > > This happens both at work and at home. > > I just can't figure out what can be going on. Any ideas? > > For reference, here is the output from 'lspci | grep Ethernet': > > 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 > PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 16) > > Here is 'ifconfig eth0' > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1A:80:49:CF:34 > inet addr:157.181.170.115 Bcast:157.181.170.127 > Mask:255.255.255.128 > inet6 addr: fe80::21a:80ff:fe49:cf34/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:476598 (465.4 KiB) TX bytes:125296 (122.3 KiB) > Interrupt:16 > > And the last couple of lines from 'dmesg': > > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 > [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > wlan0: no IPv6 routers present > iwl4965: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: > Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. > sky2 eth0: disabling interface > sky2 eth0: enabling interface > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready > eth0: no IPv6 routers present > iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_STATISTICS_CMD: time out after 500ms. > > Currently I'm connected to the wired network because 'dhclient eth0' > connected without a problem, only nm-applet seems to not work because > the icon still shows no network connection. > > Cheers, > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
