Description of problem: Since upgrading to FC6, NM has had problems connecting to the wired network on my machine. It hangs waiting for an IP address (normally obtained when the NM service starts). If I then click on a wireless network option it then gets an address and tells me its connected to the wired network. The list of networks then show *both* the wired and wireless network as selected. The connection information shows 0.0.0.0 throughout. In this state some network services work e.g. web access but printing does not. The is probably due to our wireless network being more restricted than the wired network. I have to disable wireless and restart NM and I think re-modprobed my wired driver to get it working again. I have a dell inspiron 8500. My wired card used the b44 driver and my wireless card uses the ipw2200 driver. In FC5 NM would have already connected to the wired network by the time I logged in. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-0.6.4-5.fc6 How reproducible: Often (always? -- most network activities are still working so not always accessing the ones that don't) Steps to Reproduce: 1. See description 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
A-ha! I see the same problem, but the the 8139too driver module. It seems a bit intermittent, tends to happen more with my place-of-work network. For comparison, I've a notebook I keep at home that has the RTL-8139 and disabled Broadcom 4306 chipsets, but this one has not problems connecting to the home wired network. I've attached the relevant log extracts. Curiously, you'll note that line 197 states "DHCPRELEASE on eth1 to 192.168.192.2 port 67". eth1 is my ipw2200 wireless, and 192.168.192.2 is the address of my home DHCP server. However, this machine was started from cold in the office today.
Created attachment 142163 [details] NM failing to bring up wired connection
Actually, looking at the following lines in that log extract... Nov 27 11:47:59 harmony NetworkManager: <information> Activation (__tmp1804289383) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete. Nov 27 11:47:59 harmony NetworkManager: <information> DHCP daemon state is now 1 (starting) for interface __tmp1804289383 Nov 27 11:47:59 harmony dhclient: Bind socket to interface: No such device Nov 27 11:47:59 harmony dhclient: exiting. Nov 27 11:47:59 harmony dhcdbd: Unrequested down ?:3 I think __tmp1804289383 is what udev called the 8139too device before it's brought up by NetworkManager. When 8139too is reloaded, it's named eth0 and then the DHCP client works OK. This could be a udev problem...
As a work-around, I've created the file /etc/udev/rules.d/010-netnames.rules (found on some web-site somewhere) with the content KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="<wired-mac-address>", NAME=eth0 KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="<wireless-mac-address>", NAME=eth1 which seems to have improved things for me...
Created attachment 143377 [details] Yet another log excerpt
I spoke too soon... didn't really work. Adding an /etc/iftab and moving 010-netnames.rules to 61-netnames.rules worked for about a week, then it broke again. Looks like dhclient is having trouble with the long __tmp name.
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