Re: NM won't connect to a wireless network on boot

[Lauri Kainulainen <lauri sokkelo net>]

Dan Williams wrote:

> If NM is trying to connect, it must think there's a link on the wired
> card.  Can you do the following and post the results to this list?
>
> - Without the cable plugged in, right after booting up, do:
> cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier
>
> if eth0 is not your wired network card, replace the 'eth0' with the
> device name of your wired network card.  If that number is '1' and you
> have  no cable plugged in, then the kernel driver is reporting that it
> has a link, and the kernel driver for your card needs to be fixed.
>
> Dan
>  
Right after X has started, I open a terminal and run the command:

$ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier
0

The nm-applet shows that the wired connection exists.
Just in case this means anything here's the output of dmesg | grep eth0:

eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0a:e4:57:49:9f
b44: eth0: Link is down.

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