On my test system I've had to disable NetworkManager since it removes the IPv4 address when trying to re-initialize the eth0 (tulip) device.
Is anyone else seeing NM bad behaviour?
Hi,
Bad behavior here means mainly:
1) NM doesn't see some of your network devices (it gets its info from HAL, so if HAL can't see your network devices, neither will NM) 2) Link checking doesn't work (you plug/unplug the cable, but nothing happens after waiting a bit)
For (1), we need to fix HAL to make sure it can see the device
For (2), we need to fix the kernel drivers to use netif_carrier_*() routines, but some cards don't actually support link checking and for those, we are out of luck.
Dan
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
On my test system I've had to disable NetworkManager since it removes the IPv4 address when trying to re-initialize the eth0 (tulip) device.
Is anyone else seeing NM bad behaviour?
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On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:18:30AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
For (2), we need to fix the kernel drivers to use netif_carrier_*() routines, but some cards don't actually support link checking and for those, we are out of luck.
For those you have to lob out a few dhcp packets and see what happens
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 01:18 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
For (1), we need to fix HAL to make sure it can see the device
I believe this is the problem with the kernel module for a networking card not being loaded right? I actually thought this was recently fixed in the initscripts package with the "Initializing hardware.." stuff on boot?
David
Gregory Woodbury wrote:
On my test system I've had to disable NetworkManager since it removes the IPv4 address when trying to re-initialize the eth0 (tulip) device.
Is anyone else seeing NM bad behaviour?
I've had both of my NIC addresses removed and had to run dhclient to get the addresses there again. One occasion, I had to reset my router to get the inet addresses again.
This bad behavior does not happen often and I left everything as the default settings regarding network.
This probem doesn't seem to trash the upgraded system. It happens only on the fresh installation up to present.
my $.02
Jim