Re: Wired NIC bridged through WLAN AP doesn't auto-connect

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 18:19 +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> 
> > What hardware is the wired NIC?  It could be that your NIC doesn't
> > support carrier detection, at which point NetworkManager will not
> > automatically bring the NIC up because it has no way of knowing if a
> > cable is plugged in or not.
> 
> According to lspci -vvxxx, the NIC is:
> 00:09.0 Network controller: Compaq Computer Corporation Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI UTP (rev 10)
>         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>         Region 0: I/O ports at 9400 [size=16]
>         Region 1: Memory at ef000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
>         Expansion ROM at ee000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
> 00: 11 0e 32 ae 07 00 80 02 10 00 80 02 08 20 00 00
> 10: 01 94 00 00 00 00 00 ef 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 07 01 00 10 00 00 00 00
> 30: 00 00 00 ee 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
> 
> > The driver the NIC uses is also important to know. 
> 
> This page reports the netelligent driver to be named tlan
> 	http://www.thonix.net/oldpage/linux/kernel/nicdriver.php
> and lsmod reports
> 	tlan                   31772  0
> so I assume that that's the driver used.

The driver doesn't support ethtool, but can you do the mii-tool test for
it?  Please report the results of running '/sbin/mii-tool
<interface>' (as root) both with and without a cable plugged in.  Make
sure you wait about 20 seconds after the cable is plugged in or
unplugged to ensure that the driver has noticed the change.

Thanks,
Dan

> > If it's a PCI/CardBus card, the PCI device and vendor ID are useful,
> > same for a USB ethernet dongle.  For PCMCIA, 'lspci' or 'cardctl info'
> > are what's needed here.
> 
> Are the PCI device and vendor ID in the lspci listing above?
> 
> (No cardctl, this is a desktop machine with no pcmcia support currently
> in, and presumably no pcmcia hardware)
> 
> Thanx!
> 
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