Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Am Mittwoch 17 Dezember 2008 schrieb Michael Biebl:
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
Hi!
There is already an upstream bug report for this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418745
Upstream doesn't seem to be interested in fixing false network online
status reports or even deleting default routes in that case. NM
didn't do the later here yet tough.
I agree, that this situation is less than ideal (and thanks for the
nice writeup). With 0.7 the situation will be better, as NM can handle
more different use case (static ip etc.), but the underlying problem
still exists.
A short term fix could be, to assume the network status to be online
for unmanaged devices, rather than offline. This way apps wouldn't go
into offline mode. What you will get though eventually, is unsuccessful
network connection attempts (but that wouldn't be a regression with
regard to old ifupdown).
Ubuntu ships a patch for exactly that, and I could pull it from there
Sounds like a plan! Currently I just disabled Network Manager altogether.
I just use it when I use wifi and at home and work I have port
replicators for my ThinkPads.
Attached is the patch from Ubuntu (for 0.6.6) I was talking about.
Care to give it a try?
If we want to get it into lenny, I'd have to prepare an upload rsn.
Michael
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diff -Nur bzr.debian.0.9.5/src/NetworkManagerDbus.c bzr.debian.0.9.5.new/src/NetworkManagerDbus.c
--- bzr.debian.0.9.5/src/NetworkManagerDbus.c 2007-06-25 17:38:42.0 +0200
+++ bzr.debian.0.9.5.new/src/NetworkManagerDbus.c 2007-06-25 17:38:42.0 +0200
@@ -302,6 +302,9 @@
if (data-asleep == TRUE)
return NM_STATE_ASLEEP;
+ if (data-always_online == TRUE)
+ return NM_STATE_CONNECTED;
+
act_dev = nm_get_active_device (data);
if (!act_dev !data-modem_active)
return NM_STATE_DISCONNECTED;
diff -Nur bzr.debian.0.9.5/src/NetworkManagerMain.h bzr.debian.0.9.5.new/src/NetworkManagerMain.h
--- bzr.debian.0.9.5/src/NetworkManagerMain.h 2007-06-25 17:18:17.0 +0200
+++ bzr.debian.0.9.5.new/src/NetworkManagerMain.h 2007-06-25 17:38:42.0 +0200
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
gbooleanmodem_active;
gbooleanasleep;
gbooleandisconnected;
+ gbooleanalways_online;
GSList *dialup_list;
GMutex *dialup_list_mutex;
diff -Nur bzr.debian.0.9.5/src/nm-device.c bzr.debian.0.9.5.new/src/nm-device.c
--- bzr.debian.0.9.5/src/nm-device.c 2007-06-25 17:38:42.0 +0200
+++ bzr.debian.0.9.5.new/src/nm-device.c 2007-06-25 17:38:42.0 +0200
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@
/* Allow distributions to flag devices as disabled */
if (nm_system_device_get_disabled (dev))
{
+ /* In this case, we assume we're always online */
+ app_data-always_online = TRUE;
g_object_unref (G_OBJECT (dev));
return NULL;
}
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