[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#444043: Bug#444043: network-manager: Unconnected USB ethernet device is made to take priority over connected wireless!

[Michael Biebl]

Reuben Thomas schrieb:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>> network-manager only switches to the ethernet connection, when the
>> driver says it has a link. Can you please post the output of nm-tool
>> when the usb eth. card is attached.
> 
> It seems to me from the below that the something is incorrectly
> reporting a link, so it's a driver problem. Would that be your diagnosis?
> 
> $ sudo nm-tool


> 
> - Device: usb0
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>    NM Path:           /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/usb0
>    Type:              Wired
>    Driver:            plusb
>    Active:            yes
>    HW Address:        32:CA:00:01:25:6A
> 
>    Capabilities:
>      Supported:       yes
>      Carrier Detect:  yes
> 
>    Wired Settings
>      Hardware Link:   yes
> 

Yes, it looks like a driver bug.
To be absolutely sure its not a bug in the NetworkManager link detection
support, please change to the directory /sys and run

# cat `find . -name carrier | grep usb0`

If this reports 1 although you don't have a physical link, it's a driver
bug.

Cheers,
Michael

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