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

[Michael Biebl]

Franklin Piat schrieb:
> 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
> 

Looking through the upstream bug report, it seems as if the tulip driver
/ or the emulated hardware doesn't support link beat detection.
That's why NM doesn't activate the connection.

This is not a but in NM itself but rather a driver problem.

If you prefer, I can reassign the bug report to the kernel, otherwise
I'm simply going to close this bug report.

Cheers,
Michael



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