[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#699292: Bug#699292: Bug#699292: network-manager: not connecting with Xircom RealPort2 CardBus Ethernet 10/100 (R2BE-100)

[Michael Biebl]

On 29.01.2013 23:56, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> CAPABILITIES.CARRIER-DETECT:            no
> CAPABILITIES.SPEED:                     unknown
> WIRED-PROPERTIES.CARRIER:               off

I quickly pinged upstream about this. Here's the irc log:

<mbiebl> anyone experience with this hardware: Xircom Cardbus Ethernet
10/100
<mbiebl> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699292
<dcbw> mbiebl: haha
<dcbw> mbiebl: I think I actually have one of those somewhere
<dcbw> mbiebl: except I no longer have a machine that can accomodate it,
since mine requires a type III (ie, double-height) CardBus slot
<mbiebl> dcbw: shouldn't be at least possible to activate a connection
even if the hardware doesn't support proper link detection?
<dcbw> mbiebl: NM *should* be assuming carrier = on if the device
doesn't support carrier detect
<dcbw> so that's a bug
<dcbw> but the kernel should *also* be reporting carrier always on if
the device does't support it
<mbiebl> well, that is just a guess on my part
<dcbw> so there's a bug in two places
<mbiebl> GENERAL.STATE: 20 (unavailable)
<mbiebl> is strange
<dcbw> exactly, due to carrier
<dcbw> but again, CARRIER-DETECT: no
<dcbw> and if that's the case, NM should assume the carrier is on
verlassen (Ping timeout: 276 seconds)
<dcbw> but again, the kenrel should be setting it on too
<dcbw> mbiebl: have the user 'cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier' for us
<dcbw> mbiebl: and grab some syslog messages too so we can see if NM is
listening to carrier for it or something


Andreas, could you provide the information Dan (dcbw) is asking for.

Cheers,
Michael


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