[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#568977: Bug#568977: Bug#568977: Kernel drivers

[Michael Biebl]

reopen 568977
reassign 568977 network-manager
thanks

John Talbut wrote:
> 
>> If the drivers do not provide the proper sysfs interface, then this
>> is a driver/kernel issue.
> 
> It seems as if the interface is present, it is just that NetworkManager
> is not finding it.  Presumably, since "The point of NetworkManager is to
> make networking configuration and setup as painless and automatic as
> possible." it should find any network devices if they are present.
> 
> In my case it seems as if NetworkManager is not following the symlink:
> 
>>>> ls -la /sys/class/net/eth0/device/
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-02-09 14:28
>>> /sys/class/net/eth0/device -> 
>>> ../../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0
> 
> So if I look at /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0 I get:
> 
> ls -la /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:01:00.0
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     0 2010-02-10 05:04 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root     0 2010-02-10 05:04 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4096 2010-02-10 06:40 broken_parity_status
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 2010-02-10 06:40 bus -> ../../../../bus/pci
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root  4096 2010-02-10 06:40 class
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4096 2010-02-10 06:40 config
> -r--r--r-- 1 root root  4096 2010-02-10 06:40 device
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     0 2010-02-10 06:40 driver ->
> ../../../../bus/pci/drivers/r8169

> Which seems to be what you were looking for.

Indeed. Let's reopen the bug report and reassign it to network-manager for now.
Now we need to find out it that is a problem in udev/libgudev or the way NM is
using libgudev.

Could you send me the versions of udev/libudev/libgudev you are using, please.

Thanks,
Michael


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