eth0 carrier wrongly seen on

[Sébastien Mazy <melyadon gmail com>]

Hello,

I updated today from Linux 2.6.27.8 to 2.6.28. Since this update, NM
0.7.0 has seen my eth0 (driven by e1000e kernel module) carrier as on,
even where there was no cable plugged.

What do you think? Is it a e1000e bug or does NM need changes to work
properly with Linux 2.6.28?

'cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier' --> '0' after the 'connection' on eth0
is achieved and no cable was plugged in.

Here is the relevant log part:

NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_generic_enable_loopback(): error -17 returned from rtnl_addr_add(): Sucess
NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: driver is 'e1000e'.
NetworkManager: <info>  Found new Ethernet device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_1a_6b_67_da_70
NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver is 'iwlagn'.
NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 0x01).
NetworkManager: <info>  Found new 802.11 WiFi device 'wlan0'.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exported as /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_e8_29_46_e3
NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the supplicant...
NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the system settings daemon...
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): supplicant manager state:  down -> idle
nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): bringing up device.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): carrier now ON (device state 2)
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 2 -> 3
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): device state change: 1 -> 2
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): bringing up device.
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting iwlwifi-4965-2.ucode
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX
Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): preparing device.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): deactivating device (reason: 2).
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) starting connection 'home static'
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): device state change: 3 -> 4

and so on until eth0 and wlan0 are configured and eth0 is chosen as
default route:

NetworkManager: <info>  Policy set 'home static' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS.


Cheers,

-- 
Sébastien Mazy