[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#490816: network-manager: Disconnects wired interface when started, under VirtualPC and Hyper-V

[Franklin Piat]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-1
Severity: normal


Please describe the problem:
 When I boot Debian under Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 or WindowsServer Hyper-V,
 the network is "disconnected".

 The network interface is has PCI id =1011:0009
 "Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet]" 
 The Linux kernel module to handle it is "tulip".

Steps to reproduce:
 1.  Boot Debian (stable or Testing) under VirtualPC 2007 or Hyper-V
 2a. Open a session in a console, type "ifconfig" : The interface
     isn't configured
 3a. Type "ifup eth0" : the interface get configured.
or
 2b. Open a session under gnome : the NM applet says the link is down.
     (click on the icon, the "Wired Networking" isn't ticked in !).
 3b. Click on the NM applet, tick-in "Wired Networking" : the interface
     get configured.

Actual results:
 We notice that the interface is down.

Expected results:
 The interface should be up and configured.

Does this happen every time?
 Yes.
 Under Debian stable (kernel 2.6.18 + NM 0.6.4) and Debian Testing
 (kernel 2.6.25 + NM 0.6.6)

I've opened a bug upstream :
 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542916

Franklin


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.108        add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                        1.2.1-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                      3.0-4        D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                         0.5.11-2     Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                    0.6.8+nmu1   high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                     20080417-1   networking and traffic control too
ii  iputils-arping              3:20071127-1 Tool to send ICMP echo requests to
ii  libc6                       2.7-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.2.1-2      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.76-1       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                 1.4.1-1      LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.16.3-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0               1.4-2        library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                     0.5.11-2     Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                     29-1         Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                      1.1-2        library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                 0.6.6-1      network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-12       Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant               0.6.3-2      Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework (GNOM

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