On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:36:03PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > As requested on bug #320652, here's the lshal output for my tap0 vs. > eth0 devices. The key difference I notice is the > net.originating_device, which shows only > '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer' for tap0 - I think this > corresponds to the fact that /sys/class/net/tap0/ has no 'device' entry, > and seems to be an accurate way to distinguish physical devices from > virtual ones.
There is another difference: the driver will be NULL. However, we patched NM to not disable such devices as we have buggy drivers that dont get this right. I think it was a broadcom driver quite common in dell notebooks ... and iirc that was closed so we could not fix it. We could try to drop that patch now; but i think its safer to do what you suggest and explicitly ignore devices that dont have a reasonable parent device; for now checking for the computer parent seems worth a try. affects ubuntu/network-manager status triaged - Alexander -- Network manager shows and connects to virtual interfaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199140 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
