Re: NM in Fedora 8 wont connect to wired network

["Keith Sharp" <keith sharp gmail com>]

On 24/12/2007, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 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)

I am seeing the same thing (Thinkpad T43p).  Wireless works fine,
though seems to forget my WPA password.  Output of the above commands:

$ sudo /sbin/mii-tool eth0
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok

$ sudo /sbin/ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: [ MII ]
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 100Mb/s
        Duplex: Half
        Port: Twisted Pair
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: internal
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Supports Wake-on: g
        Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
        Link detected: yes

According to /etc/sysconfig/selinux SELinux is disabled.  When I
select the Wired Network from the nm-applet menu I get the following
in .xsession-errors:

** (nm-applet:2843): CRITICAL **: new_auto_connection: assertion `ap
!= NULL' failed

** (nm-applet:2843): WARNING **: <WARN>  nma_menu_item_activate():
Couldn't create default connection.

If I stop NM and then do ifup eth0 it works as expected (gets an IP
address vis DHCP, DNS is setup etc etc).

This is on a fully up to date Fedora 8 system.

Keith.