Bug 602140 - Configuration reset every reboot
Summary: Configuration reset every reboot
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: NetworkManager
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Dan Williams
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-09 08:50 UTC by Felipe Contreras
Modified: 2011-06-27 17:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 17:51:30 UTC
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Description Felipe Contreras 2010-06-09 08:50:08 UTC
Description of problem:
Each time I reboot, some fields the configuration for 'usb0' interface get reset, in particular, the MAC address.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-0.8.1-0.1.git20100510

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add usb0 interface
2. Remove MAC address
3. Save
4. Reboot
  
Actual results:
MAC address is reset

Expected results:
MAC address is cleared

Additional info:
This is useful because the usb0 MAC address is constantly changing.

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2010-06-15 18:27:01 UTC
Where are you doing the configuration and modification?  What program and/or file?

Comment 2 Felipe Contreras 2010-06-15 19:16:02 UTC
From the applet (nm-applet).

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2010-06-28 21:08:04 UTC
The MAC address in that field is actually for locking the connection you're editing to a specific piece of hardware.  Which won't work here since your hardware keeps changing MAC addresses.  You're looking for MAC spoofing which just got added to git master upstream, but won't be in NM 0.8.1 yet.

What hardware is this?

Comment 4 Felipe Contreras 2010-08-05 11:12:08 UTC
This is a Nokia N900.

But isn't it so that all usbnet devices have the same issues?

Anyway, I found out that depending on the order of how I create the configuration I get different behavior.

For example, it's different if I first connect the device and then configure usb0, or configure usb0 from scratch.

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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 17:51:30 UTC
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