Drew Parsons schrieb: > Package: network-manager > Version: 0.7.0-1 > Severity: normal > > A change in network-manager behaviour appears to have been triggered > by the 2.6.28 linux kernel. > > Up till now, I've had network-manager automatically connect to and > switch between wired and wireless networks. At work I insert the > cable, and my wired connection is set up. I take my laptop home, and > it finds my wireless network, the wired connection is switched off. > > Now all of a sudden I've found that when I get home, the wired > connection is still on, even though no cable is inserted to the > ethernet jack. At the same time the wireless network is still found > and set up. But because nm has already set up the eth0 interface, the > gateway and dns (/etc/resolve.conf) is not rewritten. wlan0 is routed > to the local network only, the gateway is still set to the eth0 > address. So I can't connect properly to the external internet from > home. > > The only way I know to work around the problem is to switch off > "Connects automatically" in the nm configuration entry for the wired > network. This makes it less convenient at work, where previously I > just had to plug in the cable for nm to set up the connection. > > As far as I can tell the only change I've made to cause this new > behaviour is to install a 2.6.28 kernel (well, bind9-host also got > upgraded over the weekend along with associated libraries). >
What driver do you use? What does nm-tool say for eth0, is carrier detect supported? You might also check the syslog . Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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