[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#541878: network-manager-gnome: doesn't manage wired card

[Gonzalo Bermúdez]

Package: network-manager-gnome
Version: 0.7.1-1
Severity: important

nm-applet is not showing the wired network on a Dell M1210 laptop[1].
It does manage without problem the wireless device.

The device is not listed on /e/n/i[2], and I didn't change the default
configuration for /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf[3].

grepping for nm-system-settings on syslog doesn't show anything out of the
ordinary (for me at least):
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: init!
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: update_system_hostname
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPluginIfupdown: management mode: unmanaged
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_15_c5_58_dc_c1, iface: eth0)
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: devices added (udi: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_18_de_86_87_5a, iface: wlan0)
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: end _init.
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin ifupdown: (C) 2008 Canonical Ltd.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings: Loaded plugin keyfile: (c) 2007 - 2008 Red Hat, Inc.  To report bugs please use the NetworkManager mailing list.
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (30294208) ... get_connections.
Aug 16 11:35:14 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (30294208) connections count: 0
Aug 16 11:35:15 gonzalo nm-system-settings:    Ifupdown: get unmanaged devices count: 0
Aug 16 11:35:19 gonzalo nm-system-settings: Added default wired connection 'Auto eth0' for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_15_c5_58_dc_c1

To discard hardware malfunction, if I issue a dhclient command on eth0, the 
device appears on ifconfig and the network does work. nm-applet still doesn't 
see it, though.

[1] lscpi | grep -i ethernet
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

[2] cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

[3] cat /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile

[ifupdown]
managed=false

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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-gnome depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-25     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                   1:2.6.4-1  library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             2.26.1-1   GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.5-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnm-glib-vpn0               0.7.1-1    network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-glib0                   0.7.1-1    network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.7.1-1    network management framework (shar
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.5-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-gnome0              0.9.2-2    PolicyKit-gnome library
ii  libpolkit2                    0.9-4      library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  network-manager               0.7.1-1    network management framework daemo
ii  policykit-gnome               0.9.2-2    GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome recommends:
ii  libpam-gnome-keyring [libpam- 2.26.1-1   PAM module to unlock the GNOME key
ii  notification-daemon           0.4.0-1    a daemon that displays passive pop

Versions of packages network-manager-gnome suggests:
pn  network-manager-openvpn-gnome <none>     (no description available)
ii  network-manager-pptp-gnome    0.7.1-1    network management framework (PPTP
pn  network-manager-vpnc-gnome    <none>     (no description available)

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