Re: NM fails to autoconnect to wired interface

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 07:59 -0600, Brian Millett wrote:
> I'm running Fedora8, dell d820 laptop.  Installed:
> NetworkManager-gnome-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8
> NetworkManager-vpnc-0.7.0-0.6.3.svn3109.fc8
> NetworkManager-glib-devel-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8
> NetworkManager-openvpn-0.7.0-8.svn3302.fc8
> NetworkManager-devel-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8
> NetworkManager-glib-0.7.0-0.6.7.svn3235.fc8
> 
> lspci shows:
> 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI 
> Express (rev 02)
> 
> dmesg shows:
> eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM5752KFBG) rev 6002 PHY(5752)] (PCI Express) 10/100/1000Base-T 
> Ethernet 00:15:c5:08:5f:59
> eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] WireSpeed[1] TSOcap[1]
> eth0: dma_rwctrl[76180000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> 
> Running the miitest I get:
> 
> # miitest eth0
> eth0 supports MII carrier detection
> 
> When I boot with the ethernet cable connected or plug in a cable, it used (a while ago) to 
> auto connect, but now it does not.

Quick thing to check; do you have the connection set to autoconnect?
Check in GConf using gconf-editor, drill down
to /system/networking/connections, find your ethernet connection, and
ensure that it's autoconnected.  For example, my ethernet connection is
at:

/system/networking/connections/2/connection

and you're looking for the 'autoconnect' key.

Dan

>  From the var log messages:
> 
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 
> 'tg3'.
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 
> 'eth0'.
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device eth0
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exporting device as 
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_15_c5_08_5f_59
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is fully-supported using 
> driver 'iwl3945'.
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: driver supports SSID scans (scan_capa 
> 0x01).
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'.
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device wlan0
> Mar  3 08:01:33 dufus kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) 
> -> IRQ 17
> Mar  3 08:01:34 dufus kernel: iwl3945: Tunable channels: 11 802.11bg, 13 802.11a channels
> Mar  3 08:01:34 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
> Mar  3 08:01:34 dufus NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exporting device as 
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_13_02_4f_b8_6d
> Mar  3 08:01:36 dufus kernel: tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
> Mar  3 08:01:36 dufus kernel: tg3: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX.
> 
> 
> It autoconnects to wireless connections when present, but not wired.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.