Re: hal net.80203.link bug

[Bill Moss <bmoss CLEMSON EDU>]

I submitted the bug to bugzilla as suggested. The text is below.

David Zeuthen wrote: hal-0.4.7 in FC3 and FC Rawhide just listens to the 
netlink socket for link changes and gets the initial state from the 
carrier file in sysfs. It works great for me and I've not seen any bugs 
on this (apart from drivers that don't support it).

Is it possible that NM is causing hal to get the initial state wrong 
from the sysfs?
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IBM T42
FC3 kernel-2.6.10-1.741
hal 0.4.7.1
dbus 0.22-10
e1000 driver for Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller
ipw2200-0.21 driver for Intel Corp. PRO/Wireless 2200BG
setup: network service turned off, eth0 onboot=no (wired) eth1 onboot=no 
(wireless)
NM = NetworkManager-CVS-1-25-05

hal-device-manager reports values for the key net.80203.link for the 
Intel Corp. 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller

NM service on, NMInfo on or off (NM brings up eth0 and eth1 at boot)
plug in wire, boot
hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
unplug wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
plug in wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
service hald restart: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
plug in wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
unplug wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1

unplug wire
reboot
hal-device-manager: net.80203.link key not shown
plug in wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
unplug wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 0
plug in wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
unplug wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 0

NM service off
plug in wire, reboot
ifup eth0
hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
unplug wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 0
plug in wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1
unplug wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 0
plug in wire: hal-device-manager: net.80203.link value = 1

Reproducible everytime.

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Bill Moss
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University