Re: nm-applet stopped connecting to wired network

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 11:02 +0100, Daniel Fetchinson wrote:
> Hi folks, I have a super weird situation on my Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E:
> 
> I have Fedora 8 which ships network manager 0.7.0-0.5.svn3030 and
> until yesterday everything has been working perfectly well, nm-applet
> connected to both wired and wireless networks without a problem. And
> the strange thing is that I didn't do anything, no new installs, no
> upgrades, absolutely nothing (that I know of).

What's the output of 'nm-tool' when that command is run in a terminal,
when you're experiencing the problem?

Dan

> But suddenly since yesterday nm-applet wouldn't connect to the wired
> network. The icon shows the 2 monitors with the red dot in the lower
> right corner with the white cross on it, showing there is no network
> connection. When I click the icon the wired network label and radio
> button is enabled on the pop-up menu, I can click it, but nothing
> happens.
> 
> Strangely though if I do a 'dhclient eth0' the wired network comes up
> and the connection is perfectly okay. However the nm-applet icon is
> still in the 'no connection' mode.
> 
> This happens both at work and at home.
> 
> I just can't figure out what can be going on. Any ideas?
> 
> For reference, here is the output from 'lspci | grep Ethernet':
> 
> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036
> PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 16)
> 
> Here is 'ifconfig eth0'
> 
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:80:49:CF:34
>           inet addr:157.181.170.115  Bcast:157.181.170.127  Mask:255.255.255.128
>           inet6 addr: fe80::21a:80ff:fe49:cf34/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:1025 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:751 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:476598 (465.4 KiB)  TX bytes:125296 (122.3 KiB)
>           Interrupt:16
> 
> And the last couple of lines from 'dmesg':
> 
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
> [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
> iwl4965: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
> Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
> sky2 eth0: disabling interface
> sky2 eth0: enabling interface
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx
> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
> eth0: no IPv6 routers present
> iwl4965: Error sending REPLY_STATISTICS_CMD: time out after 500ms.
> 
> Currently I'm connected to the wired network because 'dhclient eth0'
> connected without a problem, only nm-applet seems to not work because
> the icon still shows no network connection.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
>