Re: nm-applet stopped connecting to wired network



>> >> >> 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?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks for the answer, so nm-tool says this:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> NetworkManager Tool
>> >>
>> >> State: disconnected
>> >>
>> >> - Device: eth0
>> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>   Type:              Wired
>> >>   Driver:            sky2
>> >>   Active:            no
>> >>   HW Address:        00:1A:80:49:CF:34
>> >>
>> >>   Capabilities:
>> >>     Supported:       yes
>> >>     Carrier Detect:  yes
>> >>     Speed:           100 Mb/s
>> >>
>> >>   Wired Settings
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> - Device: wlan0
>> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> >>   Type:              802.11 Wireless
>> >>   Driver:            iwl4965
>> >>   Active:            no
>> >>   HW Address:        00:13:E8:87:8E:4F
>> >>
>> >>   Capabilities:
>> >>     Supported:       yes
>> >>
>> >>   Wireless Settings
>> >>     WEP Encryption:  yes
>> >>     WPA Encryption:  yes
>> >>     WPA2 Encryption: yes
>> >>
>> >>   Wireless Access Points
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I noticed the line 'State: disconnected' however right now I'm
>> >> connected, I'm sending this email :) Again I had to manually 'dhclient
>> >> eth0' which results in a working connection, only nm-applet thinks
>> >> that somehow there is no wired network connection.
>> >
>> > Right, because the connection wasn't made through NetworkManager, and
>> > thus the information about the connection isn't available to
>> > NEtworkManager because dhclient wasn't run with the right callout
>> > script, etc.
>> >
>> > Can you grab /var/log/messages for me?  That will show what NM thinks is
>> > going on.  It may be a carrier change race that was fixed in F10 and
>> > higher and the logs might help us figure that out.
>>
>> My reply with the attached /var/log/messages got held up for
>> moderation because it was too big so I've uploaded the
>> /var/log/messages file to
>>
>> http://danielfetchinson.appspot.com/
>
> I think it's more these:
>
> Nov 17 02:29:48 localhost NetworkManager: Missing required value 'name'.
> Nov 17 02:29:48 localhost NetworkManager: 'connection' setting not
> present.
>
> I don't know what the cause of that could be off the top of my head, but
> you said you're running svn3030, which is from "Sat Oct 27 2007".
> That's really, really old :)  The latest NetworkManager available for
> Fedora 8 is:
>
> NetworkManager-0.7.0-0.12.svn4326.fc8



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