Re: NM in Fedora 8 wont connect to wired network

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 00:29 +0000, mark lee wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Having a strange problem using Networkmanager in Fedora 8 - the
> wireless works fine so far (an improvement for me over Fedora 7) - but
> now the wired ethernet won't work!  The wired connection is not
> activated either when the ethernet is plugged in while wireless is
> operating, or even when i turn the wireless off, so that the wired
> network is the only one available.  Clicking the "wired" connection in
> the applet seems to do nothing (can't even detect that in the logs as
> far as i can see).  The ethernet connection is definitely working as
> it can be brought up manually.    Attached at the bottom of this email
> is a few lines from /var/log/messages which occur about eth0, and some
> configuration info.

Are you running SELinux in Enforcing mode?

When you plug in the cable, what is the output of both (as root):

/sbin/mii-tool ethX
/sbin/ethtool ethX

(where ethX is your wired interface name)

dan

> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Mark
> 
> details:
> ----------
> rpm -qa | grep NetworkManager:
> 
> NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8
> NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-2.svn3047.fc8
> NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3109.fc8
> NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3109.fc8
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.6.svn3109.fc8
> 
> kernel:  2.6.23.8-63.fc8
> and its a Samsung Q35 if that helps.
> 
> /var/log/messages:
> -----------------------
> 
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio
> killswitch /org/fr
> eedesktop/Hal/devices/ipw_wlan_switch
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is
> fully-supporte
> d using driver 'b44'.
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exporting
> device as /o
> rg/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Device/4
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired
> Ethernet (8
> 02.3) device 'eth0'.
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device
> eth0
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is
> not ready
> Dec 19 23:54:30 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device
> eth0.
> Dec 19 23:54:33 localhost kernel: b44: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps,
> full duplex.
> Dec 19 23:54:33 localhost kernel: b44: eth0: Flow control is off for
> TX and off for RX.
> Dec 19 23:54:33 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link
> becomes ready
> Dec 19 23:54:34 localhost kernel: [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> Dec 19 23:54:34 localhost kernel: [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0
> 20060119 on minor 0
> Dec 19 23:54:35 localhost avahi-daemon[2222]: Registering new address
> record for fe80::213:77ff:fe28:75eb on eth0.*.
> Dec 19 23:54:36 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  Trying to start the
> supplicant...
> Dec 19 23:54:36 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant
> interface is now in state 1 (from 0).
> Dec 19 23:54:36 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0) supplicant
> manager is now in state 1 (from 0).
> Dec 19 23:54:36 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant
> interface is now in state 2 (from 1).
> Dec 19 23:54:36 localhost NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0) supplicant
> interface is now in state 2 (from 1).
> 
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