[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#542712: Bug#542712: [network-manager] NM fails to detect eth0 on multiple network cards system

[Abou Al Montacir]

Le vendredi 21 août 2009 à 10:03 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> severity 5427212 important
> thanks
> 
> Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > Package: network-manager
> > Version: 0.7.1-2
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
> > 
> > I have two network cards eth0 and eth1 and NM, which used to work perfectly, stopped working after an upgrade.
> 
> Which version was the last working version?

I really can't tell you but it was max 3 weeks, However I'm sure that
0.7.1-1 doesn't work. I also had new kernel installed by the next
weeks : I'm using sid with at least one update per week.

> > It no more detects the eth0 interface, but only the eth1.
> 
> According to the log, but eth0 and eth1 are detected, only eth0 (ne2k-pci) does
> not seem to support carrier detection.

The real issue I think is that udev is instructed to rename interfaces :
b44 --> eth0 and ne2k-pci --> eth1. However, according to logs, I see
that ne2k-pci is loaded first and thus assigned eth0, then b44 is
loaded. After some time, the udev will renames the interfaces, but NM
seems to get disturbed by renaming interfaces.

> > Please find attached different configuration files and log messages.
> 
> If I check the logs, eth1 (b44) does seem to be correctly recognized and
> activated. You are using a Broadcom card, for which there was a fix in 0.7.1-2.

See above, but eth1 is not b44. Following lines from /var/log/messages

Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    1.666614] eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb400, IRQ 23, 00:20:18:56:ad:9f.
Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    2.045222] eth1: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:18:b9:7d:16
Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    2.187172] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth0
Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    2.232627] udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth1
Aug 20 22:13:05 aziz kernel: [  137.145407] eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:18:b9:7d:16


> Are you certain that your problem still exists?

Of course, I've got the issue yesterday as you can see in the logs (Aug
20 22:11:04)

> Could you send me a lshal dump in that case.

I'll try to do it this evening as I don't have physical access to the
machine today.

Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir