[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#456310: Bug#456310: network manager returns "no network device has been found" after last hal-info upgrade

[Michael Biebl]

Stefano Zacchiroli schrieb:
> Package: hal-info
> Version: 20071212-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> After the last upgrade of hal-info, network manager fails to find any
> network device only reporting the error message mentioned in the subject
> ("no network device has been found") when clicking on the ex nm-applet
> icon. (Note that this happens even with the network device not being
> mentioned in /etc/network/interfaces as required by network-manager.)
> 
> Downgrading hal-info to the testing version (20071030-1) fixes the
> problem.
> 
> I presume (though I haven't checked) that for finding the network
> interfaces which are not listed in /etc/network/interfaces to be
> managed, network manager does some lookup via hal, which fails due to
> some hal-info breakage.  Hence, I think that the other way of using
> network-manager via /etc/network/interfaces suggested in
> /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian (namely, to list the
> desired interfaces as "auto" and with "dhcp") works, but I haven't tried
> that.
> 
> My (wireless) network card is an Intel as described below by lspci:
> 
>   06:05.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
>         Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2702
>         Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>         Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>         Latency: 32 (750ns min, 6000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
>         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20
>         Region 0: Memory at b0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
> 
> and works properly (without network-manager / hal) with the ipw2200
> kernel module.
> 
> Severity grave since I bet other people with the same Intel card will
> have a network shortage upon installing the current package version.
> 

Could you please attach the output of lshal, nm-tool and also
hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

Thanks,
Michael

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