Re: Strange NetweorkManager behavior.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 21:20 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 17:40 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > Has anyone else seen this. Sometimes when I am connected to a wireless
> >  access point using nm-applet and NetworkManager the system in F7 says I
> >  am connected to a wired network. Any comments out there?
> 
> Seen something similar, not sure if it's related. I use a desktop
> machine connecting via wireless, never over ethernet. Normally, NM
> attempts to connect to wireless as soon as I log in, but on some
> occasions lately, it seems to think it's got a wired connection -
> nm-applet displays that icon, and it doesn't prompt for keyring
> password. It certainly doesn't have a wired connection - no cable is
> connected, and /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier reports 0.

This bug has been fixed in latest 0.6.x branch SVN.  It was caused by
race conditions and drivers that can't decide whether or not they
actually _have_ a carrier for the first 5 or so seconds, and spam
netlink with ping-pong carrier on/off messages.  But it should be fixed
now in SVN.

Dan


> This is running NM 0.6.5 and nm-applet 0.6.5, both build from tarballs
> on an LFS system. I've been running those for a while though - the only
> things that have changed that might affect NM are a) rebuilding NM with
> the patch for Atheros signal strength, and b) upgrading kernel from
> 2.6.20.7 to to 2.6.21.5.
> 
> Simon.
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