On Friday 02 of July 2010 07:06:44 Mohammed Arafat Kamaal wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying get NM working on a embedded linux platform. The ethernet > controller is built on SoC(Its not a separate device). The chip vendor > provides the drivers as part of the Board support package. > > When NM is started it just ignores the interfaces, and doesn't do any more > operations. From the messages it appears to be a driver issue. Any > patches/workarounds for this issue? > > When I Start NM I get the following message: > > NetworkManager: <info> starting... > NetworkManager: <info> Trying to start the modem-manager... > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init! > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname > NetworkManager: SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: managed > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: > /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0, iface: eth0) > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: > /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0, iface: eth0): no ifupdown configuration > found. > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: > /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth1, iface: eth1) > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: > /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth1, iface: eth1): no ifupdown configuration > found. > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (path: > /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo) > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: device added (path: > /sys/devices/virtual/net/lo, iface: lo): no ifupdown configuration found. > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init. > NetworkManager: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd. To report > bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. > NetworkManager: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc. To > report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list. > NetworkManager: <info> WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state > file > NetworkManager: <info> WWAN enabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state > file > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (5130848) ... get_connections. > NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (5130848) connections count: 0 > NetworkManager: <WARN> device_creator(): /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0: > couldn't determine device driver; ignoring... > NetworkManager: <WARN> device_creator(): /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth1: > couldn't determine device driver; ignoring... > ifup: interface lo already configured > > Regards, > MAK.
The driver is not a real kernel driver and thus is not exposing the device tree in sysfs. Thus NetworkManager ignores it. What sort of driver do you use? Are you able to use a kernel driver? Try to provide more details so that someone can help you. - what embedded platform do you use? - what distro? (looks like some debian-based) - kernel version - network chip (lspci) - ls -la /sys/class/net - etc. Jirka _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
