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

[Steinar Bang <sb dod no>]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <sb dod no>:

>>>>> 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.

> The mii-tool measurements I did seemed to indicate that the NIC could do
> carrier detect.

> But nm-tool seems to think it can't:
[snip!]

Some more mii-tool results.  Running "mii-tool -w eth0" while plugging
in and out the cable:

~$ sudo mii-tool -w eth0
19:55:59 eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok
19:56:06 eth0: no link
19:56:11 eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

Here is also the output of "mii-diag -v" :

$ sudo mii-diag -v
mii-diag.c:v2.11 3/21/2005 Donald Becker (becker scyld com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
  Using the new SIOCGMIIPHY value on PHY 1 (BMCR 0x1000).
 The autonegotiated capability is 01e0.
The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD.
 Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x786f ... 786f.
   Link status: established.
   This transceiver is capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
   *** Link Jabber! ***
 Your link partner advertised 45e1: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT, w/ 802.3X flow control.
   End of basic transceiver information.

libmii.c:v2.11 2/28/2005  Donald Becker (becker scyld com)
 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
 MII PHY #1 transceiver registers:
   1000 786f 2000 5c01 01e1 45e1 0001 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
   0000 0000 0000 0cd6 0000 001f 0001 8060
   8020 0ca1 0000 1800 a3b9 003b 5305 001d.
 Basic mode control register 0x1000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x786f ... 786f.
   Link status: established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation complete.
   *** Link Jabber! ***