Re: NM Doesn't List Ethernet Card

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 21:54 +0200, Nicolas "Ikke" Trangez wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Is it that this driver doesn't support carrier detection
> Yup

Ok; if the driver doesn't support carrier detection, NM will _never_
autoconnect.  You must connect manually.

> > , or does it not
> > have the right sysfs attributes to show up in HAL as an 802.3 device?
> It does show up, I can manually select the connection in nm-applet

Was the original bug about NM not showing the wired RealTek card at all?
Because if NM isn't show the card at all, then it's a driver bug
usually.  But if NM shows the card, and doesn't autoconnect with it,
then carrier detection is missing in the driver.

> > Can somebody attach an 'lshal' dump as well as a 'tree sysfs' dump, both
> > compressed and attached to the mail?
> Not necessary:
> 
> sky src # pwd
> /root/r1000/r1000/src
> sky src # ls
> Makefile           Makefile_linux26x  r1000_ioctl.c
> Makefile_linux24x  r1000.h            r1000_n.c
> sky src # grep netif_carrier_ *
> sky src #
> 
> Nicolas
>