Re: NM insists on connecting to a non-existent wired connection.

[Michael Biebl <biebl debian org>]

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Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 22:42 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Rogue wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am seeing a very strange behavior on my Dell D810 laptop. Everytime I 
>>> start up the system, NM chooses to connect to a non-existent wired 
>>> network. I see the following in the log files:
>>>
>> FWIW I experience the same bug.
>> I have my ethernet nic on eth0 (8139cp) and the wireless nic on wlan0
>> (ipw2100).
>> On startup NM always tries to establish a connection via eth0 although
>> no cable is plugged in (and it receives a LL IP address via
>> avahi-autoipd, so the actual connection via wlan0 is not established
>> because NM thinks it has a connection).
>>
>> The problem seems to be, that NM does not correctly init the eth0 device
>> and so mistakenly thinks it has a link.
>>
>> cat /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:01.0/net/eth0/carrier
>> yields: Invalid argument directly after loading the module.
> 
> Hmm, are you using 0.6.4?  0.6.5 relies on netlink exclusively for
> asynchronous carrier detection and only
> checks /sys/class/net/ethX/carrier after a successful activation.  Do
> you have a /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier?
> 
> Does what's in SVN head for NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_0_RELEASE work for you?
> 

I applied r2578 against 0.6.5 and now the problems seems to be gone.

Michael

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